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Originally Posted by rhadin
Putting a high price on a book doesn't equate, in my mind, to artificial scarcity.
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No, what I mean by "artificial scarcity" is society trying to pretend that one can't make ten billion extra copies of an electronic file at the touch of a button at zero added expense. Physical objects have
real scarcity because they have to be made using limited material resources. Any limitation on the number of copies of digital files is just people playing "make believe" and hoping that other people play the game with them, either by carrot or by stick.