You don't resolve Brand's maxim by going wholly from one side to wholly the other side. Copies should be practically free, it is the effort to produce that is n

You don't resolve Brand's maxim by going wholly from one side to wholly the other side. Copies should be practically free, it is the effort to produce that is not. Articles like this half realise that something has changed, that something is failing in the copyright-oriented way of funding production. But what is their conclusion? "Let's pretend it is not real, let's just go back to how things used to be." -- ultimately they completely fail to understand or adjust. There is a simple fact: The benefit of the internet and the mechanism of copyright are severely, fundamentally, inescapably conflicted. What copyright restrains is exactly the good the internet offers. The intelligent thing to do is devise other ways of supporting production, better suited to the realities.