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Originally Posted by HarryT
Absolutely right. It's like companies who illegally produce unlicenced versions of drugs. A drug might only cost pennies to manufacture, but it can cost hundreds of millions of $ to come up with in the first place. Unless the legal framework allows that money to be recouped, the result will inevitably be "no more new drugs". That is patent law, not copyright, but the principle is the same.
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But in other threads you've supported the NHS aspiration of 'free at the point of use'.
If 'the principle is the same', shouldn't readers have free access to books regardless of their ability to pay?