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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It might be nice not to be able to do anything, to just take whatever you want for free. The only problem is that someone has to work to produce those things.
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It would be nice if people did what they liked to do and offered everything they produced to anyone who wanted it.
Authors definitely need to eat, just like farmers. But it seems that the copyright system is built as a protection against those who would take advantage of anothers work. In other words, it is curing the symptom, not the disease. The disease being the meme consisting of the idea that it is ok to reward yourself financially from anothers work.
By taking away the possibility of selling, the meme would eventually die.