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Originally Posted by Leyor
It's definitely not a virtue, quite the opposite. Without Copyright a professional book industry existed for hundreds of years.
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The "book industry" you are talking about was tiny in comparison with what we have now. Not a lot of books were produced and the the readership was limited because so was literacy.
I don't see how you can make valid comparisons. You might as well go back to the era before printing. Copyright was not necessary when the only method for copying was long and laborious writing by hand.