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Well you did expect others to feed you when you were 14. The students pay for them in the manner of university fees and too the public at large in the manner o
by Ardit20 16y ago
Well you did expect others to feed you when you were 14.
The students pay for them in the manner of university fees and too the public at large in the manner of taxation, yet still they hide them behind pay walls.
In regards to this point I think you have missed my question. I was asking why should someone pay for Faust on the internet, in the context of course of regulation and the like.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoThe students who pay for the academic journals, in the manner of university fees, etc., get free access to said journals through their university library. You seem to be arguing, if I understand you correctly, that the academic journals ought to be free to all-- which destroys their business model. I have close relatives who have edited academic journals, and I can assure you, there is an enormous amount of work involved. Regarding "Faust", do you know of anyone who has attempted to put "Faust" behind a paywall? I doubt it; if they did, they'd have little success, as "Faust" is in the public domain (except for recent translations, naturally). The question you should be asking yourself is: if all content is going to be free, who is going to pay for the production of content? At the moment, your argument seems to be that content should be free because you don't want to pay for it. While, as you indicated in your comment above, this attitude may be commonplace in 14 year olds, but is not the basis for a sustainable society.