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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Why is it always about the authors when we're talking about copyright, and never about the whole system?
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Because it's a lot easier for people who are trying to defend the system to use "poor starving artist" instead of "poor starving industry executive". It's very rare that you see anybody who is pro-filesharing say their goal is to hurt the artists themselves, it's almost always to hurt/eliminate the middlemen. However, the people trying to defend the industry always spin the conversation into "pirates" vs "starving artists" because it's easier to get an emotional response that way.