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The Napster of books is already here, it's called the ebooksbay. Fully searchable, indexes torrents and pdf giveaways etc. It's been around for awhile too  Some of these 'tech' journalists really need to do some research. |
I prefer 4shared, personally. It's kind of like rapidshare, except it doesn't suck.
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I am also puzzled how you connected the "digital age" with "free income and livelihood?"
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I think the basic idea for this kind of argument is that technological progress tends to lessen labor for people. With machines, people don't have to work as physically hard. With good agricultural technology, people don't have to work all the time just to feed themselves. Eventually, we might get stuff like robots to do labor and 3d printers to make material goods (like those replicator things in Star Trek).
As more things become "free," people would have to work less hard to earn a living (for example, if content and programs were available online freely, people wouldn't have the extra expense of buying them and could work less hours to pay for their expenses); though presumably a good deal of people would still work pretty much to buy all sorts of advertisement fueled consumerist goods and luxuries.