[earbitscom]

Making something illegal that people want to pay for raises the price higher and we probably shouldn't do that. Enforcing laws that prevent people from taking things without paying for them also carries expense, but so does enforcing any laws. Just because the war on drugs is dumb doesn't make paying to enforce other regulations poor economic policy.

[nickgeiger]

Agreed. We should enforce laws and we shouldn't make laws where the cost of enforcement outweighs the benefit to society of having those laws.

[earbitscom]

Sure, except that the price tag one person assigns to the art and culture we lose out on when people cannot stand to profit from it is different than another's.