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by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 20, 2005 at 01:56:30 PM PDT

Duplicating is not a physical theft, so it should not be illegal. So, if I am willing to retypeset and publish a book on my equipment and my paper, I should be free to sell that and give the original author no royalties. After all, you don't know that people who bought my copy would have bought his instead.

I didn't steal anything physical from him. I mean, it's not like ideas, creativity and thoughts are at the core of what it means to be a human. It's really our physical possessions that make us who we are, right?

You are taking away any reward for being creative, and basically going back to a physical barter type society. Welcome to the middle ages!

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