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If the library charges? Yes. In the age of the Internet, where data storage and transmission costs are effectively $0 for basic text documents, there is absolu
by erichurkman 8y ago
If the library charges? Yes.
In the age of the Internet, where data storage and transmission costs are effectively $0 for basic text documents, there is absolutely no excuse for all laws and codes to be 100% public domain.
It's not as if the government has to print a physical book for every citizen.
- SilasX 8y agoFair enough, but that's a different argument from "it is 100% categorically wrong for anyone to have to incur any material cost to access the laws". If travel has costs and you have to travel to the library to learn it, that already violates it. And you're still sidestepping the issue of the codes having a cost of production like any intellectual work, in terms of deciding e.g. the optimal balance to put in terms of safety vs cost of a building code. It doesn't cost for each access, but they do have to amortize that cost, and it makes sense for the cost to be allocated toward those who do specialized work in that domain.
- Mirioron 8y agoIn fact, I would go even further and say that it should be illegal to force somebody to follow laws and regulations that are not publicly and easily accessible. By this I mean that people enforcing this or pushing for it should be punished. It's basically racketeering.
- SilasX 8y agoDoes “having to go to the library” or “paying $10/month for a subscription for doing things most people don’t do” count as “not easily accessible”?