[dredmorbius]

$5.25 per month for a typical U.S. household, or an 0.01% income tax basis, would provide compensation equal to all current book sales, and avoid both the deadweight losses of information access denial of the present system as well as the Federal Crime of Giving People Books.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647625>

Criminalisation of digital distribution was only legislated in 2008 (again in the U.S.):

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33643398>

[dredmorbius]

Correction: that should be 0.1% (1/1000th of income), on an annualised basis.