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Old 02-22-2012, 10:25 AM   #1
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Greetings! It's time for a fantastically futile?? poll

If a website hosts all knowledge and gives access to everyone, but donates any profit received through the site to relevant charities (educational facilities etc...) Should the site be allowed to exist?

By all knowledge I mean anything that the site wishes to distribute. It would of course be hard to imagine a site hosting all knowledge.

And by profit I mean anything more than is required for the site's administrators to live nicely... I think you get what I mean.

To me this is the only question worth considering in the coming era of widespread ereader adoption.

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Old 02-22-2012, 10:58 AM   #2
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Only if it has a right to what it offers up.
There is more than enough freely available content that there is no excuse to take what is not freely given.
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Old 02-22-2012, 12:12 PM   #3
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All knowledge? ALL knowledge? Absolutely, if someone managed to do such a thing, then by all means let the site stay - but only if it has a well implemented search function.
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Old 02-22-2012, 12:28 PM   #4
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It depends on what you mean by knowledge. If we are talking about a collection of facts or original articles about knowledge, then sure. If on the other hand, you are talking about a site that hosts knowledge about what words are contained in which book, and where, then I am going to have to say no (since such knowledge would essentially be the book in question).

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Old 02-22-2012, 12:34 PM   #5
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What are you really asking? Knowledge may be freely distributed, but the books that contain the knowledge may not, until the copyright as expired, at least. If as a result of reading a book, I gain the knowledge of the leading export of Bhutan, I can spread this knowledge as far as I wish. I cannot, however, freely distribute the book.
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Old 02-22-2012, 12:43 PM   #6
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My vote is: Enough with these pointlessly loaded polls already.
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Old 02-22-2012, 12:51 PM   #7
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Greetings! It's time for a fantastically futile?? poll

If a website hosts all knowledge and gives access to everyone, but donates any profit received through the site to relevant charities (educational facilities etc...) Should the site be allowed to exist?
By profits, do you mean after the CEO, managers, IT personnel, HR and all expenses of acquiring, maintaining, protecting and disseminating this knowledge gets paid?
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Old 02-22-2012, 02:08 PM   #8
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By "knowledge" do you mean "entertainment"? Somehow I just can't think of fiction as "knowledge".
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Old 02-22-2012, 02:10 PM   #9
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As bill_mchale and quantumiguana stated.

If you include all books in their entirety than that is wrong. Many books including fiction contain some knowledge, although few contain original knowledge.

Posting books because they can contain knowledge is just a thinly veiled excuse for .....

And I imagine that all knowledge would mean what government security agencies are doing, who is sleeping with whom, and exactly how you or your neighbours are spending his/her/their free time.

Pretty scary stuff IMO and while I could possibly be morbidly interested on occasion I prefer not to know everything about everybody or have everybody know every thing about me.

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Old 02-22-2012, 02:43 PM   #10
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Old 02-22-2012, 03:53 PM   #11
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I vote no. I believe in some form of intellectual property rights. Otherwise you take away a big incentive for companies to invest in R&D.
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Old 02-22-2012, 08:29 PM   #12
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Yes, personal correspondence indeed presents a problem, I'm going to modify the original question a bit.
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Old 02-22-2012, 11:42 PM   #13
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I voted no.

If the content on the site is in the public domain or the person who's owns/created the content specifically says that they want it available for free then I am fine with it.

All that more pirate sites would do for books is give less money to the authors who WANT that money. Give the people a choice; Sell their work or give it away for free, no one but them should be able to decide that.

I'm all for freedom, being forced to give away your stuff is not freedom.

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Old 02-23-2012, 02:15 AM   #14
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Yes, with the caveat that the representation of that knowledge matters.

Violating copyright laws, propagating hate literature, etc. are not forms of knowledge.
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Old 02-23-2012, 02:38 AM   #15
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Do you view copyright laws as part of the package of fundamental human laws, or do you see them as mere spatiotemporal abstractions?

What I mean is I don't believe in copyright so your statement about violating copyright doesn't make any sense to me...

What I do believe in is being able to read whatever I want.
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