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Originally Posted by Giggleton
This is just where we disagree, I am free to say that you are wrong. An author should not be able to set a price on their work. They are allowed to upload to the network. Knowledge distribution should not depend on the democracy of whether or not this or that group of people think a price is unjust. Knowledge and its effects are specific to individuals.
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But we are not really talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is not limited by copyright. If I write a book describing a new invention, even if the invention is under patent, anyone else is free to use that knowledge anyway they want (as long as they don't violate a patent). They can even develop a new presentation of that knowledge and upload it to the internet.
What you are talking about not just the knowledge, we are talking about the work itself. An author might spend years working on a novel, both writing it and editing it; he might have poured every effort into making sure that every word and every comma is just right. Why then should he not be entitled to enjoy some of the fruits of that labor?
Lets remember, without copyright, the author might just decide not to publish in the first place.
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Bill