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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I understand that authors need to be compensated for their work but we should be able to come up with a system that allows for free access to all texts while still compensating those texts creators.
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Where does said compensation sprout from? Your contention is that you should be allowed to profit from the efforts of your fellow human beings, and that they be compensated by someone else instead of yourself. If your proposed system involves a pool of compensation generated by community contributions that is independent of the individual levels of consumption of said works, you've just described the tax system. You're perfectly welcome to patronise public libraries that are funded by said system. And you'd also notice that this is still a system that depends on citizens making small payments upfront in the form of said taxes, that is, it is still not "free access". The "free access" you demand does not exist because it would effectively cut off any means of compensating the authors. There has to be something going out of your pocket in order for there to be something going into the pockets of the authors.