[kevincox]

So if I record a song in a studio I shouldn't be paid because it is easy to copy that recording?

This is like saying I shouldn't be able to sell widgets at a profit to cover the cost of construction my production line or for the effort spent to create the design.

[matheusmoreira]

> So if I record a song in a studio I shouldn't be paid because it is easy to copy that recording?

Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. I just think that should somehow happen before you create the valuable data, not after.

Trying to sell copies of that data in a world where data is trivially copied and distributed worldwide just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. It was a good idea before computers and networks existed.