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Xcelerate
on Nov 3, 2012
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How to stop illegal downloads
You're saying an author's own wishes do not matter in the manner his work is treated?
mhuffman
on Nov 3, 2012
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That is correct. The intent of copyright is not to support the wishes of the author, but to stimulate the progress of arts and sciences.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/...
gathly
on Nov 4, 2012
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I like this. Living in America, I get bombarded with the Libertarian idea that one should focus on the self so much that I forget that there was a time when focusing on the progress of society was not heresy.
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