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I spend a good portion of my day imagining just such a world. Everything basically hinges on karma, do unto others as you would have them do unto you and such.
There are people out there that like to exploit others for their own benefit, by storing copies of ebooks on sites and then placing advertising on those sites to generate revenue. In a copyright free world those kind of sites would be irrelevant, ebooks would be available gratis from the source, the authentic site. There will be extreme competition to create the true authentic site, that hosts all ebooks and also provides an extremely streamlined and highly functional interface for the reader. I suspect Amazon is already considering the matter. Have a nice day. |
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So, rather than debate the past, I thought I'd bring the discussion into the present. Surely we'd see an exact repeat of 1710 England/Germany if only we'd have no copyright. Lee |
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But for you -- you are now living in a thread where at least we can glory in "what would be" if we made that step and abolished intellectual property. We need not rehash the past. Let us glory in this new future where the poor have access to all knowledge. Where greedy publishers have been stripped of their power! Lee |
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Wouldn't the world be a better place? Wouldn't knowledge being free be the best of all worlds? Who can possibly make a challenge to this notion? Lee |
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Is there any reason that your every response in this thread shouldn't be considered to be a massive troll, leebase? Because I can't see one.
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I also fail to see how a copyright free world will do anything to change the nature of advertising on websites. Perhaps you could clarify. Quote:
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And yes, I agree, in our capitalist society a lot of such evil occurs. Getting rid of the unvirtuous notion of intellectual property and copyright is just the first step in making society better. Wouldn't it be better if every book in every university were freely available to the poor? You think we are best served by withholding knowledge for only the elite? Quote:
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I agree that there are inequities in our society. And yet, one must actually think through from the other side, sometimes, to really get understanding. How could high priced ebooks ever be considered a virtue? Well, lets consider a world in which there was no copyright. That would HAVE to be a better world, right? The poor would no longer be denied access to knowledge or even entertainment on the basis of being unable to pay. Isn't that obviously a good thing? "Greedy corporate publishers" are an easy enemy. Surely they do nothing but serve themselves and society would be much better without them. Well. Let's take some time and imagine that world. Is money necessary to entice people to create books? Just how in the world can authors and the like make money if there was no concept of intellectual property. Lee |
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Oh wait. In this copyright free world, the corporations could not own the code you wrote for them. You would be free to take the code you wrote for pay, and then offer it for sale to any other corporation. We have this with opensource. But the truth behind modern opensource is that most of the major projects are actually sponsored by corporations. Oracle, IBM, HP, even Microsoft contribute billions of dollars into open source. And yet those billions of dollars come from profits from their proprietary software. There won't be any such concept in this world. How many billions of dollars is Microsoft going to continue pumping into Windows when windows too will become freely available for copying? Lee |
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