Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror
by samarthr1 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:16PM
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Actually, if you were a scholar in ancient India, knowledge was mostly state funded.
Don't have a citation off the top of my head though.
Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror
by giantg2 on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:07AM
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That's roughly true worldwide -leader would pay for books to be written. But someone still had to pay, and copies tended to be limited. And if course then there were the book burnings to eradicated knowledge dangerous to the current leader.
Yes, back in the ages when you needed a scribe or a huge printing press. It's not like knowledge and books were magically free.
Now in the digital age we can create as many copies, without consuming physical material, as we want and distribute it globally.
The realities are extremely different. Perhaps copyright could be amended, but I can't envision its complete removal being net beneficial.