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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Read again.
I'm not talking about creator's choosing Creative Commons or any of the OpenSource licenses. Those creators are exercising *their* right under the law. And I explicitly excluded them. They are part of tbe system the IA thinks they can obviate. They can charge whatever they want, including nothing. They created it, they own tbe copyright. *They* are entitled to do anything they want with it.
I'm talking about the online chatterers and "activists".
And the people who listen to them and buy that hooey.
Those aren't entitled to "public domain" somebody else's property just because "information wants to be free" or because they can make money off sleazy ads on a sire ful of torrents. Pirates are pirates however tbey style themselves.
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Plenty of people who oppose IP produce works of note, which is what you said didn't occur. You seem to be confusing those who say "I should be able to take whatever I want for free" with those who oppose IP. They are perhaps a subset of people who oppose IP, though I also suspect that many don't oppose IP per se, they just want free stuff.