We created a world of information, where thoughts and concepts can be distributed with little effort or cost, and anyone can contribute to and improve on any previous idea, allowing anyone else to benefit from it.
Then a system was placed on top of it to make these intangible communications artificially scarce and to prevent people from benefitting from the information.
WHY
Since around the turn of the millenium, humanity has been conducting an experiment: to see what happens when communication can freely happen between anyone, anywhere, instantly. Close to 5.5 billion people have access to a global information network, billions of interconnected minds that produce infinite amounts of incredible content every instant, in a system that will never ever reach its full potential as long as the bizarre scheme that allows individuals to "own ideas" remains in place.
Because it takes effort to make things of value, whether they’re “scarce” or not. Have you been diagnosed with autism?
Yes I have, that's why I felt specifically targeted by your first post lol.
If effort is required to make something, compensation for the creator's time can be given in money, then after that the asset should be shareable freely. However, if it doesn't require as much effort to distribute an already existing asset, it's less clear whether distributors should require to pay or be paid.
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That's true, and it's not like books and plays and other materials didn't exist before copyright, and there was absolutely still reason to create them. In modern times, the internet is the perfect example of
a system that promotes copying in all forms, and provides instant distribution for modified content. As such it's futile to try and prevent this from happening with any kind of legislation.
