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Originally Posted by Sparrow
It's also theft when money is taken from me to give to authors and publishers for books I don't want to read.
(That's how the UK public library system works.)
What goes around comes around.  |
I agree whole-heartedly.
And it's also then "theft" when works which were originally scheduled to enter the public domain get "grandfathered" simply to line the pockets of megacorp publishers & greedy families. This is even closer to the definition of "theft" since the public domain
does lose something which had been promised to it.
Here's a perfect example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/bo...pagewanted=all
It's an amazing double-standard -- individuals are expected to act honestly/legally/morally while they're being fleeced by amoral corporations & immoral copyright owners who seemingly have no shame.
Troy