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aken909 said:

 

I don't believe that piracy is real.
There was a time when the only media was books and at that time you could go to your library and for free check out and read books.  I believe we should still have a library system and it should be kept up to date with modern media. since our government (USA) has failed to provide adequate library services I don't really have a problem with people taking it into there own hands when they can't afford the media themselves.
It's about equality and giving everyone a fair chance to be great regardless of income or at least it used to be.

 

I don't believe that piracy is real.

There was a time when the only media was books and at that time you could go to your library and for free check out and read books.  I believe we should still have a library system and it should be kept up to date with modern media. Since our government (USA) has failed to provide adequate library services I don't really have a problem with people taking it into there own hands when they can't afford the media themselves.

It's about equality and giving everyone a fair chance to be great regardless of income or at least it used to be.

 

 

Libraries do contain media other than books. It's just that their selection of stuff outside books isn't very good. The public library argument is pretty good though. I have seen some real evil douchebags on internet forums argue that the book publishing companies are being ripped off by the fact that anyone can go into a public library and read their books for free (outside of taxes of course). But the general opinion is that people, regardless of income, should have the right to read for free. They even have really shitty books with no cultural value in the library ffs. So I'm not even sure if we can use the "books are different because they have real cultural value! Unlike video games! Yes, those Twilight novels have more insightful content than Planescape Torment!"