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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Agreed.
However, almost 100% of your posts focus only on creating that side of the Utopia that favours you. That is, the side in which your desire to read anything you want for free is catered for.
The Utopia wont work unless both sides are catered for.
Firstly there are ways to be able to fill every spare moment you have with reading whatever you want, including copyrighted material, at no or very little cost. There are libraries, borrowing from friends and family, free books such as the Baen library or similar set ups, joining a purchasing group, the public domain just to name a few. In this way you should not even have enough spare reading time in your day to have to resort to obtaining copyrighted material without compensating the author.
However, from your posts all I see is your desire to have other members of society support your desire to read anything you want for free. I have never seen anything in your posts that suggest you would be equally prepared to support those other members of society. If anything I see just the opposite since your fundamental position is that the individual should not have to pay for what they want to read unless they want to, which you obviously do not. So you are expecting the author to support you but are unwilling to support the author in return.
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Love of money is the root of all evil.
Firstly, Yes I could spend my days browsing the government mandated public domain, or I could continue to see all knowledge as the public domain. Why should my choice of reading material affect the ability of an author to put food on their table?? Are you suggesting that when a work is uploaded to the network, those without money or those who do not believe in money should have to wait a century before being allowed to read it? That sounds like censorship to me, what does it sound like to you?
Systemic problems are problems of the system, not of the individual.
I would be happy to support authors that I have enjoyed reading. Perhaps not monetarily, but that is not the only means of support as I'm sure you are aware. Once we abandon the antiquated notion of copyright, I will be able to freely distribute texts... As will everyone else.