Not everyone wants to break the law to read things from their collection. Also the physical experience of reading is much different than digital.
While you could store your collectable in a vault, many people enjoy displaying their collectables.
While you could store your collectable in a vault, many people enjoy displaying their collectables.
[0] It’s still copyrighted, although it seems that will expire in a decade or so, though. I guess I’ll read it then.
>"I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more)."
>"I think it's immoral"
King Herod makes the Kill Babies Act and now you consider it immoral not to kill babies?
You justified copyright by suggesting it was about supporting creators. So you at least consider the moral justification to end at the creators death?
It just really interests me how copyright terms which were grown purely to support corporations so they wouldn't have to be creative (read that as would but need to employ people, or pay people for creativity) can have people figuratively clutching pearls.
But .. I just didn't want to encourage piracy among our community, is all.
If you were just passing by when a friend did it and read their computer screen I think you'd have a stronger argument.
It’s a bit hyperbolic. It’s a webpage of a comic book.