Here we are in the 21st century, with the capacity to give every internet user complete unfettered access to an unimaginably vast library of literary and artist

Here we are in the 21st century, with the capacity to give every internet user complete unfettered access to an unimaginably vast library of literary and artistic work. But we refuse to do it, we impose restrictions on our tools to create completely artificial scarcity, solely because we're stuck on an 18th century business model for creators that barely worked when the printing press was novel and rare—and is now more of a lottery than a vocation.