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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by jeswin on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:28AM (#26338985)
> If I copy your MP3, you still have your MP3 and haven't been deprived of anything. The world is actually just a better more abundant place now.

As a creator, there are many things I want people to copy, fork and share - all my open source stuff. Then there are things for which I expect to get paid for - my training videos. I'll be upset if someone started distributing or copying them for free.

As a creator I should be able to make that decision - not the consumer. Or you are claiming that digital goods are not goods at all.

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Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra... by csallen on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:58AM (#26341316)
Yes, this is why we have copyright law. But it's important to realize that the law is artificially creating a viable business model, and your expectation to get paid is based on that artificial creation.

There are theoretically infinitely many business models that don't work well in reality, so nobody has them as a career, that we could create laws to artificially protect.

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