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Originally Posted by Lemurion
The pirate ebook "economy" is a "gift economy" like
Before we started paying creators they tended to rely on patronage, where the wealthy would subsidize them. As a system it works, but there are a limited number of patrons, and the patronage system gives them a lock on the kind of content that gets produced.
Writing is a right in many countries, freedom of expression. What's not a right is the ability to read whatever you want for free. No one guarantees that.
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I would say that most people are well aware of the patronage system of Europe in the past on this forum. . Also, I understand freedom of expression is a right. , so is going to the toilet, so what. I figured you would understand that I was referring to being paid to write. Saying that writing will suffer without writers being paid a fine wage is what I find a weak argument. There are many a fine writer from the past that did not earn a good wage, yet were able to "survive" in their respective cultures.