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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, it is different. Piracy is not unauthorised READING; it's unauthorised COPYING. When you read the magazine in B&N you are not creating an additional copy of the magazine. There was one magazine before you started to read it; there is still one magazine after you finish reading it. It's creating the extra copy by downloading that's violated copyright law; it's entirely irrelevent whether or not you subsequently read that copy that you've created.
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We have begun the process of creating a network where only one copy of a text ever need to exist. All digital goods simply need to be accessed.
Shall we place every text behind a paywall?
Or grant universal access to every text?
Should the decision of access be left to the uploader of the text?
How can we allow the uploader to make this decision and still allow for the lending of texts that cannot be copied but only accessed?