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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
We are not talking about art unknown outside a particular group, we are talking about art not created at all. How much poorer would the world have been if 90% of all the novels written in the last 200 years never been published or even ever written?
How much poorer will our culture be in 200 years than it could be if we make sure that artists continue to have a chance of making a living off of their work.
And how many other people who develop copyrighted work (Like software engineers) will not bother if they can't be compensated for their work.
In any case, regardless of how the world should be, the way it is is simple. Artists have a reasonable expectation, one assured by law, that if they produce a work and people want to use that work, that they have a right to be paid for the use of that work. File sharing is breaking that social contract.
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Bill
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Most of them aren't now, other than work-for-hire, like any other workingman....