[MD] SOPA and PIPA

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Tuukka]
> I'm okay with artistic intellectual property being given away for free, 
> if there is basic income guarantee and no welfare traps. If we don't 
> want that, why would we even want public libraries?

Good point!
Public libraries are an example of the government buying 1 copy of a book
& letting many read it without further compensation to the publisher or author.
This has, in Bertrand Russell's classic phrase, "all the advantages of theft over
honest toil". 
Craig