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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Too funny Giggles. How long can you keep this slow-motion troll going? Kudos for never breaking character, at least. But I bet you couldn't keep a straight face with this kind of silliness in person. 
What is the universe?
What is death?
What is is?
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Why so serious? Occasionally This does come up IRL...
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Originally Posted by AndrewH
No, absolutely not. There is no "textual need". I already stated that even if someone were to assume there is a "textual need" (which I do not assume), it could be fulfilled via the multitude of works in the public domain. There's more there than anyone could ever possibly read in their lifetime. If they want access to the latest and greatest however, then they should be willing to pay. It's not a matter of the rich keeping the poor down. It's a matter of you wanting to freeload off society. No matter how you try to rationalize it, or what sort of sophistic, specious, and pseudo-philosophical crap you use to try to justify it; you just don't want to pay for entertainment.
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FIRSTLY, to speak of pseudo philosophy you must first define philosophy which we haven't.
The public domain is massive to be sure, but at some point, perhaps now, the non-public domain will become larger than the public. But that is beside the point, which is that the largest change can come from the smallest piece of text. So we CANNOT restrict access to anything, priority one.