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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
There's no balancing. Limited copyright is legalized theft. Books (and other works of "art") should belong to the rights holder until such time as those rights are voluntarily relinquished.
Since society has some warped view on the definition of property, I'll gladly take the extensions that keep getting tacked onto existing copyright.
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You can
say that copyright is theft, but based on
what? Property exists without government, you can carry your possessions on your body or lock them up to prevent others from taking them.
But copyright is meaningless without government; copyright is a government-granted limited time monopoly on copying. Unlike physical property, once you let people read a book, there's nothing you can do to prevent them from copying it. You can get the government to enforce your limited time monopoly.