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Originally Posted by Giggleton

Love of money is the root of all evil.

So says the good book of one of the richest organisation on planet Earth. hhhmmmm

Originally Posted by Giggleton

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.

I notice you conveniently ignore all the suggestions I put forward of how you could read many a free book that is not in the public domain. Just from libraries and borrowing from friends and family I think I could fill and entire years worth of reading copyrighted books for free. By the time I got through them all there would be more for the next years reading.

Says a lot about the value you place on your principles if the effort of borrowing from a friend or library is too much trouble to uphold said principles.

Originally Posted by Giggleton

Why should my choice of reading material affect the ability of an author to put food on their table??

So again, for all your talk about the Utopian Internet 2.0 and everything being free, you still come back to the fact that you want to read something and couldn't care less about the author of that work.

Sounds less and less like a Utopia and more and more like everyone should just give Giggleton whatever he likes and to hell with everybody else.

Originally Posted by Giggleton

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?

I don't know of any library waiting list for any book that is a century long. Do you?

Originally Posted by Giggleton

That sounds like censorship to me, what does it sound like to you?

Nice red herring but no. No one is censoring what you can read. They are merely saying that if you want to read that thing you have to pay for it. If you can't afford it then you have to go on a waiting list at the local library or borrow it from a friend or wait for a sale etc etc etc.

Originally Posted by Giggleton

Systemic problems are problems of the system, not of the individual.

Absolutely. However you haven't pointed out any systemic problem. You have pointed out the fact that you do not want to pay for anything you read. You have suggested society, through higher taxes, should pay for anything you want to read.

That isn't a systemic problem, nor is your solution a systemic solution.

Originally Posted by Giggleton

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.

Of course money is not the only means of support. However, in our current society it is the means by which authors, along with everyone else involved in the supply chain that gets you that book you want to read for free, provide for themselves and their families.

I find it interesting too that you should mention money not being the only means of support when all of your suggestions for implementing this Internet 2.0 Utopia center on society paying money to authors through higher taxes in order for you to read whatever you want without having to pay any money.