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I don't think most copyright abolisionists would want to either, simply out of principles or sprites.

My comment were mostly in the context of a competition, not customers.

Legal and economic systems can't depend on politeness.

That's great.

Now . . . let's see if we can avoid legislating politeness.

Clearly we can't, since virtually everything that can be downloaded for free on the Internet is being downloaded for free on the Internet, books very much included.

I'm not sure exactly how you think that addresses my point. Perhaps you're fallaciously affirming the consequent.