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OK, the topic of copyright infringement.
When industrial revolution started, the society shifted from peasant-master composition to a community with equitable resources and benefits of mass production. This mass prouction was driven primarily by monetary incentives. The profits of the company. It inspired, motivated and pushed humans to get creative, get innovative and we dreamt of an ingenious near-utopian society. But utopia is unnatural. Everything that comes into existence has to go. It has to vanish. It has to be replaced by someting else.
The replacement has partially completed. The information age, as we call it, is taking over industrialized countries. Some countries have completed this process. Developing ones are just starting to enter this phase.
Everything has a plateau. A plateau where growth slows down, then gradually it stops at some point. We have reached a plateu. The purpose of allowing monetary incentives has fulfilled the needs. It has, better than expected. Better than we ever imagined. While standing at the start of this plateau, we are tasting the other side of this coin. We are debating whether this coin has two sides or one? As truth always says, it has. It has two sides. It will always have two sides.
What do we do now? What do we do now as a community? We have to start something new. Something that will replace this. Sure it has been born. It was born long ago. Grwoing slowly. Creeping up behind the curtain to take over this mess. you know what it is. You are aleady using it at some time or other. Creative Commons. Open source. Public domain.
Now I will not enlist the huge list of texts, software, even hardware/tools, information, systems, media and what not in a way where people tell you: "Free for Humans". Use it for whatever purpose you like. Because we are one society. This will take over. It will get better with time. It is getting better with time. Better than the products withh monetary incentives. Time will answer.
We better stop beating dead horse, literally.
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