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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Actually leebase countered with "In what fantasy world do we believe people will just write books for free?" Nothing in the rest of that post mentioned anything about professional writers either.
MarjaE simply replied that they and many others already do this. Nowhere in this response by MarjaE did they suggest this is a reason to abolish copyright.
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Yes, that is how I read MarjaE as well. I saw leebase's "in what fantasy world" comment yesterday, and thought about replying something similar as they did, but decided to spend the time reading (a free fanfic) novel instead.
It's also worth mentioning that barryem did not say "let's consider abolishing copyright because people will write books for free", they said (paraphrasing) "let's consider abolishing copyright because we don't need any more new books". I was the one who mentioned free books because I wanted to be thorough when arguing against barryem's suggestion. So leebase is arguing against a point noone made (and insulting people who are generous enough to share their creations for free while at it).