[zanny]

It is not much of a market argument to say "there is this legal framework to artificially restrict information transfer, and if people don't obey it someone might not make revenue from nothing".

Most of the IP abolitionists (myself included) would just argue you should be doing free market information creation, and charging for scarce resources and not erecting some artificial framework mess to destroy a potentially enlightening capability of the information age. If you want to make a movie, seek funding to make the movie. If you want to write software, seek those who want software and ask them to give you money to make it, etc.

That is really inevitably the only way this ends, because IP is incompatible with the modern forms information can take. The ease, rate, and speed of transfer marginal expenses have collapsed to zero, so treating it as a scarce good is only systemically harming society with artificial scarcity.

[mcintyre1994]

I agree with you. I think it's inevitable that it will go that way, the current system is impractical in the modern world. I agree that artificial scarcity is of no benefit to society. The only thing I disagree with is that there's no possible way for piracy to have a legitimate victim, that feels like too much of a simplification to accept.