I don’t have the energy to dissect your 20 part manifesto, sorry.I appreciate the effort, but got lost in the bullet points (the un-bulleted things felt like responses to the bullet and I wondered who you were replying to). It all felt like the crazed conspiracy theorist meme, sorry. I’m on a phone and it’s such a shitty interface to wade through complex argument
As for books - No way, it’s not wrong at all, and I regularly pirate music before I buy it, for example. We’re not that different, I’m probably just accepting more ‘guilt’ for what I pirate.
Do you agree that physical goods are a whole different set of circumstances to abstract things? (As in, how the rolex is fundamentally different to the concert experience)
See with books, that’s where out gets complicated. I don’t agree that reading part of the book is a problem, but the whole book does count as piracy to me. I do admit I don’t know where the line is crossed. It’s great the way libraries skirt around this problem and I don’t really know how that fits in the broader scheme.
Perhaps another great idea is a magazine where there’s really only one or two articles of interest - in my mind, have at it and consume what’s of interest without shelling out for the whole thing (this is a lot like time-shifting, where recording content played on the air at a certain but inconvenient time is absolutely fair use).
Format shifting via a 3d scanner is fine but uploading to for others is where it’s problematic - personal use has always abominated various liberties, I felt.
Great thought experiments, cheers