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Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library by duairc on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:20AM (#4898835)
"If free and open access to all of human knowledge at the push of a button truly prevents our society’s beloved artists, authors, thinkers, and other creative people from putting food on their tables, then maybe it’s time to rethink how to put food on their tables."

Exactly. Full communism now!

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Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library by narag on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:09AM (#4899652)
What's more like to full communism, saying contents producers to find a market-friendly method to get paid, or putting a policeman over the shoulder of everybody to watch for draconian IP laws compliance?
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Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library by duairc on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:17AM (#4899696)
I don't understand? "IP laws" are totally incompatible with communism because property itself is totally incompatible with communism. I'm not sure what you mean by "market-friendly" but it sounds like some sort of euphemism?
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Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library by swordswinger12 on Monday December 10, 2012 @01:15PM (#4900598)
Well, the latter actually strikes me as more fascistic/authoritarian. In a strict sense it isn't like communism at all. In fact, neither one of these are really communist. Misuse of that word bums me out.
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