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Originally Posted by schex86
... Implementing a system of artificial scarcity to protect an industry, whether or not that industry is dependent on the efforts of so-called artisans, is overall harmful and detracts from the general betterment of everyone else as, in this case, it unnecessarily restricts their access to useful information. While this may benefit a specific group, the effect on the whole will always be a net loss.
And an author, as an individual, does have inherent rights. But these do not include imposing his will on society at large with the sole intent of bettering himself and his compatriots in a financial sense. ...
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This is simply wrong. There is no artificial scarcity only the free market and the laws that govern it that have developed to meet both needs of the creator and the consumer.
Neither has presidence over the other with the exception that he creator of something has inherent rights of whether and how to share his creation with others.