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Originally Posted by Kirtai
If you do work that no one wants and no one asked for, should you be paid for it? (I'm aware that not what you meant but you did come across that way)
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No, of course not, but people who DO make use of the work must pay for it (or face legal sanctions if they don't). I don't expect anyone who hasn't used my software to pay for it, but I do find it... irksome ... to see it being offered for download on Torrent sites and Usenet newsgroups, and even sold on CD on eBay. And the current law makes it extremely difficult for me to do anything about it. Given that copyright infringement is a civil, not a criminal offence, it's beyond the financial reach of most small content creators to make use of the courts. Copyright infringement really needs to be made a criminal offence, so that the law will do something about such things.