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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by stubish on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:43AM (#23399799)
> Knowledge and culture is not anyone’s property. It is the collective work of all of humanity and ought to be treated as such.

This is a specious ideology without a mechanism to reward creators. At the moment that mechanism is money, either through sales, or for a rare few patronage. Without reward, creation is limited to the otherwise idle, and the collected work of all humanity lessened.

Personally I advocate the right to buy at a reasonable cost (as reasoned by society). Once a reproducible work is released to the public, you can't refuse my payment for it.

Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by door99 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#23404032)
Reward doesn’t have to take the form of intellectual property. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_...

Intellectual property benefits publishers, not creators.