Comment by amiga386
7 days ago
What difference does it make to me if someone shoots the last bison? I wasn't getting to eat it either way.
If people are really concerned about bison, they should lobby gamekeepers to release photos of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#/media/File:Bis...
Replace bison with some random animal no one's ever heard about, and photos with literal clones of the animal, and you've got a much better metaphor. Not to forget that in this world, brand new animals are created every day.
If you destroy a 17th century book, you can't make another one. Eventually you destroy them all.
As long as digital or physical copies exist, you can. Regardless, let's be real, nobody is destroying 17th-century books. The "rare" books we're talking about here still have copyright owners who just don't bother printing new copies due to a lack of demand.
A digital copy of a book is identical in value to a printed copy.
This is entirely untrue.
Simple example:
Actual book from 1732 (rare, original, older than your country): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Compleat-City-... -- yours for £1,258.00
A scan of the same edition of that book: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-compl... -- free. Nobody's paying any money for the digital copy.
I don't think you understand the book itself is a collectible object with rarity and value, regardless of the information it contains.
Plus, the physical copy of the book has additional value in terms of forensic verifiability. You can prove the originality of the text and the absence of alterations, and can easily track changes between editions.
Digital copies can be altered at whim, as the only means to provide any sort of tracking or verifiability is through another external software system that itself has to be trusted.
NFT's