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Re:Book Piracy as Peer Preservation by clock_tower on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:50PM (#12167450)
Jefferson's talking about memetics -- about the spread of ideas and ways of thinking. I don't see how IP law interferes with meme competition; and I don't see how meme competition justifies pirating entertainment (which requires large investments in visuals, audio, acting or voice-acting, computer programming, and so on, all of which the spread of ideas doesn't need).
Re:Book Piracy as Peer Preservation by icebraining on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @03:35PM (#12168212)
The argument he used works for any non-rivalrous good, even if his specific concern at the time was with memetics.