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According to the media companies it is just important to cover those century-old texts as the latest Star Wars movie. People are exactly as guilty (and should
by slyall 8y ago
According to the media companies it is just important to cover those century-old texts as the latest Star Wars movie.
People are exactly as guilty (and should feel exactly as guilty) download one as downloading the other.
- dionidium 8y agoSure. But it's not intellectually honest to justify downloading terabytes of the latest Hollywood blockbusters on the grounds that it's unfair that those downloads are treated the same as century-old texts. You're smuggling in an irrelevant grievance.
- autoexec 8y agoPersonally I can't feel guilty about it. Copyright was a compromise. A limited privilege of exclusive rights to encourage the creation of new works after which they would fall into the public domain and everyone would have full access to them. Companies have gone back on their end of that bargain and now we have perpetual copyrights and new works will never enter the public domain. Deal broken, I feel no need to uphold my end by respecting the rights they were granted.