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Originally Posted by AndrewH
I don't see the point. If you want a book you can pay for it, wait for it to be available at the library, or steal it. Why should others subsidize your entertainment?
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The point is that reading is not theft. Every book should be available at the library. And in fact a lot of books are. A few libraries actually required every book to be made available through public library systems. This was before the digital of course.
Do we require a new regulation, requiring every work uploaded to the network to be made available to the public? Or has the notion of profits been so indoctrinated within you that you cannot see yourself giving away creation to anyone who wishes to read your work?
Copies in the digital age are trivial. We only allow them to be complex due to stifling laws. These laws make websites like the pirate bay et al to exist and profit from others work. If copying existed outside all regulation, the pirate bay would cease to function on a for profit basis and its offspring would come forth, entirely volunteer run.