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by c4h8o3del 2916 days ago
> That's so disproportionate that you might as well just abolish copyright.

Ideally that's what we would do.

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Maybe one day we will, but first someone had better come up with another economic model that demonstrably supports creation and distribution of new works anything like as effectively as copyright has. There are a few ideas with potential, mostly in specific niches, but no-one has come anywhere close to reaching that goal in the general case yet.