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Originally Posted by scottken
Heh. Of course not. The most interesting point I was trying to highlight with the above quotes is that the "Free Culture" movement fails to note its own hypocrisy in paying regular money to large corporations while depriving individual artists of the royalties they need to support themselves. While musicians can at least tour to earn additional income, writers are primarily dependent on book sales, making piracy of the sort Goodkind outed even more problematic.
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Well I can't speak for "Free Culture" but I would think the amount of hypocrisy depends on the
definition of free that they adhere to. But also I think it's disingenuous to portray it as large corporations vs individual artists. One could easily turn that around to large media companies vs individual software developers.