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Comment by PuddleCheese

Copyright exists to incentivize authors, artists, scientists, etc. to create original works by providing a temporary monopoly.

The arguments suggesting that people shouldn't benefit from their work on an individual level, and pointing to music piracy as an example of why we shouldn't try, strike me as arguments for general inaction and fatalism. Not sure what the goal is, there...

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