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Originally Posted by barryem
Again I'm not suggesting this is something society should do. I think it's something this group might discuss.
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I mentioned several serious drawbacks to your suggestion
a couple of pages back. Do you have any comments to any of those? Do you think they won't happen, or do you think none of the drawbacks are important?
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Originally Posted by barryem
I think if we didn't have copyright we'd still have many of the great and even the good novels. What we'd have a lot less of are genre things.
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We'd certainly have fewer novels but I'm not sure how much of a loss that would really be.
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A lot of people read and enjoy new novels, including genre novels. Losing most of those might not be a loss to you personally, but I assure you that it would be a significant loss to many, many readers.
Frankly, this view sounds like someone going to a buffet and throwing out all the food they don't like, because they can't imagine that other people might have different tastes.