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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Here we pay taxes, and it's used on public schools, hospitals, libraries... I can't see why a "digital" library is not an option, when everything else is funded and works. I'm not describing a fully socialist model, but something everyone can be happy with. A world of piracy, anarchy, is not going to make anything better..
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Where is here? Because here in the US there is this misconception you pay income taxes to fund those things but that is not the case. Thats the way they sell it to you but thats not what happens. What pays for schools? Property taxes. What pays for state employees? Sales taxes. What pays for health care? Insurance. What pays for the US federal Government? Running up the credit card since 1933.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Well, your national debt is a question of electing the right leaders and your personal debt is about priority and sense. If it fails, it still do not justify stealing for the purpose of over-consuming.
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Again I don't know where you're from but can you give examples of the right leaders?
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
If you want to give the little man chances, then you also have to stick up for his rights to protect his own work. Piracy is taking away both economy and freedoms.
Don't get me wrong. I do not want a fully government controlled internet. However, the time is now "I told you so" - and if fingers are to be pointed, I know where to point them.
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There are 1 million laws on the US books. I'm assuming that you aren't in the US but do you really think that somewhere mixed in those 1 million laws there's not already something they can use? How about as an industry policing yourselves? Where I primarily make my money that's how we do it. If there's a scammer running around he/she always gets outed by the community and dealt with. One was recently put away for years do to the "community" policing ourselves and using what laws were already there.
On that same note. One "corporation" whom everyone thought they could trust turned out to have been robbing us all for years.