> Sounds a lot like communism, where everything is free and you don't need to worry about working.
Communism implies an economy. When it comes to data, there is nothing to economize. It's abundant, there's more than enough for everyone.
The only reason the internet isn't a post-scarcity society is we still have laws like copyright holding us back.
> Oops, now nobody is working and there is no stuff!
Pretty weird seeing this argument on Hacker News of all places. Lots of developers work for no financial reward, myself included. Scratching one's own itch is a hacker tradition and it disproves the notion that nobody would create anything if it wasn't for copyright.
Communism implies an economy. When it comes to data, there is nothing to economize. It's abundant, there's more than enough for everyone.
The only reason the internet isn't a post-scarcity society is we still have laws like copyright holding us back.
> Oops, now nobody is working and there is no stuff!
Pretty weird seeing this argument on Hacker News of all places. Lots of developers work for no financial reward, myself included. Scratching one's own itch is a hacker tradition and it disproves the notion that nobody would create anything if it wasn't for copyright.