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Originally Posted by Giggleton
If you read a life altering text, do you not want to share that text with as many people as possible so that they might have the same experience as you? And do you not think that any block to this kind of sharing is severely detrimental to the advancement of our species culture...
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You
are free to share that text, even within the confines of copyright law. You are free to summarize it or share excerpts of it. If it is on some sort of media (eg. paper, CD-ROM) you can give another person your legally acquired copy. If it is on a publicly accessible website, you can share the URL. What you cannot do is create near verbatim copies of the text.
And, quite frankly, I don't see what your obsession with money is. Copyright law is not about money. Copyright law is about controlling the supply. It is true that you can generate revenue by controlling the supply, but you can just as easily use copyright to restrict access to material (say a private diary).