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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by googlryas on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:22PM (#32976413)
Because it frequently isn't knowledge that is being spread, it's a creative work.

There's nothing intrinsic about Harry Potter that the world needs access to it. An encyclopedia would be a great thing to be freely available. But why would someone need free access to Harry Potter?

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by throw10920 on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:05PM (#32989172)
Yup, and piracy advocates make no distinction between the two - there's an argument "everyone deserves access to knowledge!" (ignoring the fact that everyone does have access to knowledge, just not specific literary renderings of it) and then they swap out "knowledge" for "any written work". Intellectual dishonesty.
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