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Originally Posted by Giggleton
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.
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That reminds me of an old joke: How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg? The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Terms like distribution are well-defined. You can make up your own, but it doesn't change anything.
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The network was never meant to be locked.
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The network was never meant for you to distribute other people's work without their permission.
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It's been awhile since I studied infinity but I'm pretty sure that any number is close enough. 
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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.
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Ignore the evidence all you want. Your alternatives are the stuff of nightmares.