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> At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. [...] Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end.
> Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly
> Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law
> Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit
> and the whole nation will be in the plot
> when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop
> The public seldom makes nice distinctions
> The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create
https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyr...
> At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. [...] Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end.
> Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly
> Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law
> Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit
> and the whole nation will be in the plot
> when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop
> The public seldom makes nice distinctions
> The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create