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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
No one has even remotely suggested hindering artists ability to distrubute their works. What people are talking about is hindering you giving away these artists works for free.
You giving away copies of the artist's is what hinders the artist's distribution. You've substituted your distribution for the artist's.
And no, the potential audience is not near infinite. The potential audience is about 7 billion people, if all people wanted a copy. That's not near infinity.
You haven't in any way demonstrated that this is a fallacy. On the contrary, ample evidence has been provided that it isn't fallacious
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So we must now ask ourselves, what is distribution? I submit that only the act of first upload can be called thus. Everything else is merely access.
The network was never meant to be locked.
It's been awhile since I studied infinity but I'm pretty sure that any number is close enough.
But seriously, I think the number of artists who would choose to not create if the network did not provide a mechanism for ensuring compensation pre-access is "infinitely" small compared to the number of artists who would create and then upload with only a vague promise of compensation post-access.