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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Nobody has a right to "earn a living" at anything, even manual labor, outside of a socialist system. But it has to be true that creators have a right to be compensated for consumption/viewing of their creations, if they make that a condition of consumption/viewing. That doesn't mean they'll make a living at it but it does mean they should not be robbed by any downloader who just doesn't want to pay.
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Exactly. Very few writers make a living writing creatively. (People make decent livings as things like technical writers.) But the fact that you can, at best, only hope that it supplements your income doesn't mean that someone else has the right to come along and take for free what you've set a price for. All it means is that they don't have to buy it from you.