Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
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#2> Copyright Crime Special Unit
It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
#3> Copyright Crime Special Unit It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
Unless big tech does it I guess
Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
#4> Copyright Crime Special Unit It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
I had the same thought. Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.
Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
#5In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years.
The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to saying doctors should let patients die on the sidewalk if they can't pay.
I'm torn on the issue of sharing files, because I've watched its rise over the past 25 years and seen how tremendously it has improved educational opportunities for poorer peoples.
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#6In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years. The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to…
It is important to note that authors are not compensated when you buy access to an academic article in a journal.
In fact, since the authors both do the work of creating the content and peer-reviewing submissions, they must also pay the journal in exchange for doing this work.
Think of it like the patient paying the hospital, the doctor paying the hospital, and in exchange the doctor can do their work at a prestigious hospital, which is all very lucrative (for the hospital)
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#7In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years. The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to…
>The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free
This analogy is not even remotely applyable to piracy. Piracy is about content that can be shared, you can't grab a surgery and share it with someone else after buying it.
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#8In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years. The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to…
>The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free This analogy is not even remotely applyable to piracy. Piracy is about content that can be shared, you can't grab a surgery and share it with someone else after buying it.
It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".
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#9In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years. The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to…
The problem with copyright is that gives the owner too many other rights that can be summed up as a right to also prevent distribution. This creates an imbalance. The owner should only be given the right to be compensated; but other rights should be stripped. For example, why not to require the right to publish a book to always be a public offer that any publisher can join on the same terms?
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#10Access to education and information should be free - or at the very least a lot less broken than it is today.