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by superdude 3936 days ago
The #1 purpose of file sharing is not knowledge sharing, it's entertainment sharing.
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You don't read fiction? Libraries have massive kids sections, I doubt they're reading Applied Chemistry.
I'm responding to your specific argument that this is all about knowledge-sharing when it's not.
I am equating "knowledge" and "entertainment" and not making a judgement on what constitutes entertainment. If it can be known, then it is knowledge, regardless of whether or not it is fiction. So by that definition, it is all about knowledge-sharing.