[mlyle]

> It's a breach of contract.

Says your own novel legal theory, which has as much basis as trying to tell the cop that's pulled me over that I'm a sovereign citizen.

> They should repay the damaged counterpart if they can prove they had a sales contract in place.

We give monopolies on copying to encourage production of high quality yet easily-copyable work. If someone can just immediately start selling the good without any of the production costs, that's no bueno for society. It's the free-rider problem.

[lapinot]

> It's the free-rider problem.

Uuh. Free software would be to differ. Commoditization of intellectual property enable people to do useful productive work as a hobby. And everyone gets encouraged to work with the strongest stream collaboratively.

[mlyle]

Free software is one option that is enabled by current copyright. In many cases, there's sufficient incentive ("fame" or marketing, lowered shared maintenance burdens, etc) to make it happen. I have a ton of diff that I've gotten into free software and have had maintainer roles and lead projects.

But I don't exactly think you're going to make a blockbuster movie or AAA game as free software. Some things cost money in a way that any other incentives aren't going to pay it back.