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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
No we cannot because of the limitation that said compensation does not arise from thin air. You do not get to force other hard-working people to subsidise your desire to lay around reading.
Downloading = copying.
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And what is this thing that you think is worthwhile to humanity? IMO everything is worthwhile.
And what if, as has been mentioned previously, someone is unable to work and can not make the trip to any physical library? How are they supposed to obtain their reading materials? Should they be subsidized? Or do we consider their textual needs merely a necessary exception to the copyright regime?
Perhaps downloading does = copying, and perhaps merely viewing the text and storing the pattern of characters in your mind is copying as well. But that is irrelevant. We have the ability to copy and thusly we shall.