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Originally Posted by xg4bx
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson
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context, this quote is about the rights of states, not of individuals.
Quote:
Originally Posted by xg4bx
if some books/movies/games being "stolen" are the price for having a free and open internet, then let the piracy commence.
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Having some books/movies/games, to use your scare quotes, "stolen" is inevitable in the digital world, just like in stores. One price for living in human society is that some people will manage to take other people's property, intellectual and otherwise, without their permission. I want to mildly discourage that, and we can discourage it without turning our world into an unfree hell-hole like, oh, say, Jefferson's plantation.
Check out how it works in France, where a free and open internet coexists with a more serious anti-piracy regime (warnings, with eventual possibility of service cutoff) than in most other countries. There was talk of the new socialist government repealing the anti-piracy law, but
based on details found here, they are keeping it. This is about what seems in store for the US, and I don't see where my freedom of expression, or freedom to read, will be harmed.