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Originally Posted by barryem
I think the problems you point out are very real ones and they're important and in a free society discussion of them should be encouraged.
However, I don't think piracy is an answer anymore than bank robbery is an answer to poverty. The answer, and the only possible answer, is to talk about it so we can influence others and eventually improve our system, which is supposed to be government by the will of the governed. Lobbyists lobby and have lots of money to do so. We have words and ideas and moral values and if we don't use them lobbyists keep winning.
Barry
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Barry. Your post illustrates very nicely the limitations of copyright discussion on Mobileread. I can comment substantively on your piracy opinion only if I agree with you. If I wished to argue that piracy is justified in some circumstances or even only that it has or may have a positive influence in some circumstances I will end up banned or suspended and my post deleted or edited for condoning piracy. Whilst I wish free discussion could take place, I do not have a problem with the situation. I do not want to see Mobileread threatened and sued.