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Circumventing the fee is in no way fair to the corporation trying to charge the fee, especially when the corporation expressly wants to force each of those peop
by sillysaurus3 12y ago
Circumventing the fee is in no way fair to the corporation trying to charge the fee, especially when the corporation expressly wants to force each of those people to pay the fee. I can't rip off a book for my personal education. Same with an academic article.
No matter how much we wish the world was different, that's how the law is currently set up.
- NoodleIncident 12y agoBad example... people can and do buy books, and let anyone who comes over to their place read them. They even let complete strangers take the books home for a short time, you just have to fill out a form to get a card from them first. The fact that digital copies are rather easier to loan out, and the fact that you don't much care if you get the copy back, shouldn't make /r/scholar illegal. It might, but it shouldn't.
- dredmorbius 12y agoThough in your "fill out a form" example, libraries do often pay much higher fees for works (particularly journals).
- bnegreve 12y agoThe law in not that absolute, some constitutions include the right of revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution) Without going this far, I personally think civil disobedience is ok in that case. How can you change the law, if the law is absolute? (I've noticed that this is a rather controversial opinion though.)