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Originally Posted by Giggleton
To me, copyright feels like a prohibition on the act of thinking. Thought and expression of those thoughts was free before copyright, thought is not free currently, thought will be free when copyright is abolished.
Do you think that those who copied books before the invention of the printing press felt that they were involved in wrongdoing? Or do you think that they understood that what they were doing, copying and spreading knowledge, was beneficial to all.
Time to visit the library to find an old post about it?? 
There's an argument about the potential benefits of copying outweighing the potential harms of copying. It appears that all the new copying methods, although at first vehemently opposed by the entrenched copying industries of the time, eventually resulted in oodles more money for those copying industries, as well as the creation of new copying industries.
If history is anything to go by, once copyright is abolished, we should expect the most massive increase in wealth generation the world has ever seen. I don't buy the poor little artist argument. Probably because I might be one and I like copying stuff. I mean stealing stuff, to paraphrase Picasso.
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Wow, you are really spreading knowledge to humanity when you are copying that new bestseller. What a noble and selfless act -- pirate a book, save a child! And all those 100s of 1000s involved in making, printing, editing, and distributing books, are thanking you for eliminating their worthless positions. That is what I call a massive increase in wealth creation.
Ever thought of why there are so few opportunities for decent jobs for you? Since you are so free to think, perhaps you should think about that.