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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I agree that a creator should be compensated if a reader finds their text useful, but I do not agree that readers should be restricted with what they are allowed to read based on economic status, this is the 21st century after all, can we not contemplate a system that allows everyone to read everything while still compensating the creators? Why force ourselves to live in the stone ages of copyright? lol copyright? since when has anyone copied anything?? All we do is download.
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"If the user finds their text useful...". So essentially everything in your world would be use first and then compensate later? I suppose it could work, except at that point there would be no need for money, since hardly anyone would be paying anything for anything... of course the people doing the work might decide it is easier to free load instead so soon hardly anyone would be paying anything for nothing... Seriously, this is an invitation for intellectual dishonesty, if someone is feeling cheap, they are going to find most novels not very useful... and therefore not worth paying for.
I can think of other ways that authors can be compensated. For one, I think a kind of subscription library (with breaks for those who are too poor to pay the standard fee) might be a good way to go. In fact, I have argued for something like that as probably the only practical way to actually end piracy. That being said, its not the law of the land yet, and likely never will be. And while copyright is the law of the land, and the best thing yet tried, I will defend authors rights to enforce those copyrights by reasonable means. I want them to write more; a lot more.
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Bill