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Originally Posted by tompe
The important question is why it should be available? If the answer is to promote production of new books and music and so on then you have to start with that goal and see how to best achieve it. And the answer could be that the best way to achieve it is that everything is in the public domain. Whatever you think about this you can be sure that the current system is not the best way.
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I agree – but then the next best solution is not to simply allow folks to download whatever the hell they choose at no cost, to the very real detriment of artists who's lives often depend upon the proceeds of those sales.