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Originally Posted by taosaur
The folks who bring it up are rarely "anti-copyright." The position that authors and publishers should be pursuing new business models has nothing to do with one's stance on copyright. Copyright only comes into it when media companies try to aggressively expand copyright as a shield against progress.
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Oh, I very much disagree. The anti-copyright folks bring up the idea that writers can find other way to make money from their writing, other than getting paid for it, ALL THE TIME!
They never have any realistic suggestion of how this is supposed to happen in absence of copyright, of course, just either a sort of "well, it'll work out somehow" attitude, or "writers can dig ditches can't they?" solution.
As to your solutions, that's just going back to the old system where the wealthy controlled the flow of ideas and information to the masses. I prefer not to retreat to intellectual serfdom.