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Originally Posted by Iphinome
What interest do you have in society?
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Your words suggests that it is in the interest of society simply to get things for free.
No: It is in the interest of society to get things,
period. Copyright and DRM laws are intended to encourage people to produce, so society will get things--because it is assumed (and backed up by historical precedent) that society, left to its own devices, will simply take them at the first opportunity and give nothing to the creator, leaving them little incentive to create.
So, by supporting copyright and honoring DRM, you are actually supporting society by providing for more things to be created for it. By doing the opposite, you are causing society to
lose the potential creations by people who, seeing how little protection themselves and their work would receive, didn't create them and decided to go work for the supermarket instead.