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0 pointsquadrangle10y ago0 comments

> Reproduction getting cheaper only makes IP even more necessary.

Insanity. Cheap reproduction means "IP" is that much more destructive.

Mechanisms to stop plagiarism need to be entirely separated from laws against copying and sharing.

Are you one of those people who thinks we shouldn't have public libraries?? Freely distributed and shared ideas are a social good, period.

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morgante10y ago· 1 in thread

> Are you one of those people who thinks we shouldn't have public libraries??

Every copy of a book in a library was bought, not randomly stolen from the author's personal library or illegally printed.

quadrangleOP10y ago

There's no similarity in this debate between accessing something private (that the owner didn't want published) and distributing/sharing new copies (or the same copy) of something published.

Every video copied to Facebook in the discussion here was originally a legitimate video uploaded to YouTube for public viewing.

If you want to continue the actual discussion about the place of the public library versus online sharing of ideas, you'll find only one reasonable distinction: the library isn't for-profit and putting ads on things. Facebook is awful here, but not because videos are being copied and shared — they are awful for their ads and tracking of people and their enabling of plagiarism (which is when someone makes fraudulent claims of authorship and has nothing to do with whether or not copies are made).

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