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So what I can walk into any store and walk out with a cart full and not pay and it's all good, sharing is the norm? I can just walk into any apartment complex and move into any unit without pay since sharing is the norm?

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Well, those things aren't IP. Maybe you could take pictures of all the pages in a book in a bookstore?

So only intellectual property is shared? Doesn't sound to me like sharing is the norm when it only applies to one category of goods.

Try reading my comment fully again? I was talking about IP.

No, that's not what anyone said. The conversation is about copyright...

So it's not that "sharing is the norm" it's a difference in the understanding of ownership and property rights. Otherwise why not share the food and share the housing, since sharing is the norm and not the exception when it comes to property rights?

Otherwise why is sharing the norm in one small specific instance and not the rest?

The original statement was in the context of IP. In this case, no one has anything taken away when it is shared. Sharing physical goods requires them to be taken from somewhere/someone... not so much for digital information, which can be duplicated infinitely.

This is a funny comment in the context of a discussion about a (nominally) communist country.

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