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“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”
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“...nothing is more properly a man’s own than the fruit of his study. The protection of literary property would greatly encourage genius and promote useful discoveries.”
― A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects (1843) [Leather Bound]
― A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects (1843) [Leather Bound]
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.”
― Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
― Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
“The public domain is not some gummy residue left behind when all the good stuff has been covered by property law. The public domain is the place we quarry the building blocks of our culture. It is, in fact, the majority of our culture.”
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition
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