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Old 03-14-2010, 08:20 AM   #104
Ben Thornton
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Nothing about the issues involved are light hearted. Or fun. Or amusing.

It's at the heart of a very real struggle which will define our society and it's control over our lives in the next few decades. Post-scarcity and scarcity economics are competing in the same market space, and the result is not proving pretty.
This strikes me as over-dramatic.
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You cannot force a hard and fast distinction in the way you're advocating
I'm not advocating any such thing. I'm not taking part in a titantic struggle to redefine society. I'm chatting on an internet forum about ebooks, wondering whether we should have a special word for innocuous copying.
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