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Originally Posted by mpeg2
Not specifically about books - but more on "piracy" in general - I strongly recommend two books by William Patry (one of today's experts on copyright). I found both of these quite enlightening about the history of all this (this battle goes back much longer than I'd thought) and the meaning & implications of what's going on now:
Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars - William Patry
How to Fix Copyright - William Patry
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Those are pretty good reads, although a mass shift of perception, towards the idea that you can never own an idea/text/art is probably needed if copyright is ever to be fixed.
Most people only lightly touch on the idea of attribution but it is at the core of this argument.