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I don't think that word means what you think it means. Pure capitalism has no respect for the rights of others, child labor, dumping toxic waste without safe disposal, cornering the market on a necessary good to inflate the price leaving people who can't afford it to die. Capitalism is greed take what you can as much as you can that's why we even in capitalist countries pass laws for the public good that put limits on capitalism. We have public schools so that everyone can learn a basic set of skills regardless of ability to pay we have other socialist things like fire departments and public libraries because pure capitalism hurts people on a large scale. We found a balance. Copyright as it is is unbalanced You rail about the rights of authors but attempt to take away any reason why anyone should respect them. The people aren't getting anything out of respecting copyright laws when copyrights were 7 years they did, when they were 14 and 28 years even they did. Now they don't. Telling them to pay for it is not the same thing. The ability to enjoy something for a fee or to enjoy something given free (beer) is not the same as having something free to use (libre)
Do you also advocate for lifetime patents? The drug companies would love you forget the life saving prescription drugs imagine what a bottle of aspirin would cost. Shouldn't a patent have the same lifetime rights and them some that copyrights have? Certainly a new invention like a cure for cancer has more of a benefit to society than a Stephen king book should the inventor not be able to charge as much as they want into infinity and perhaps only to people who agree with them politically or are the same religion or race? They invented it they have the moral right to control it and milking it for anythign or in any way you choose is capitalism and i have to respect it no?
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