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Originally Posted by kennyc
No not a solution. The point of copyright and other intellectual property laws is to allow the creator to profit from their work while improving society by making it available.
If you destroy the incentive to create new works there will be none.
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The argument was that the difference between filesharing sites and libraries is that the latter are regulated/legal. Well if that's the
only problem with filesharing sites, then a very simple solution presents itself. If the problem is that filesharing destroys the incentive to create, then that problem applies equally to libraries. Creators could not survive on what they get from libraries.