Controversy is stirring up this week as lawsuits are on the point of being settled around Google's efforts to make digital copies of library collections available on the 'net.In the spirit of disclosure, the books associated with this author have been available in Google since their publication, as well as with competing structures such as Amazon.
In an era where education, healthcare, food, electricity, gas and water are carefully rationed out, the author believes that it is wonderful that information, the most valuable of worldly resources, locked away in libraries such as those in Oxford or Harvard, is being made available freely to the public. This is a move on par with the advent of printing presses, translations of the Bible, and the formation of public libraries themselves.
It is a Kali Yuga mindset to believe that the rich and privileged (Kings, Political Dynasties, Mobsters, Captains of industry) should always maintain a monopoly on resources, especially knowledge, to better exploit their brothers and sisters.
"For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."
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