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Originally Posted by RobbieClarken
You lost me at the first sentence. Knowledge might be free to distribute but it can be very expensive to create/discover in the first place.
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Absolutely right. It's like companies who illegally produce unlicenced versions of drugs. A drug might only cost pennies to manufacture, but it can cost hundreds of millions of $ to come up with in the first place. Unless the legal framework allows that money to be recouped, the result will inevitably be "no more new drugs". That is patent law, not copyright, but the principle is the same.