You're ignoring the reality that digital assets aren't like cars. You made a stupid analogy, I called you out on your stupid analogy. Close to 100% of the cos

You're ignoring the reality that digital assets aren't like cars. You made a stupid analogy, I called you out on your stupid analogy. Close to 100% of the cost of creating a book, movie or song lies in the creation Correct. not the duplication. Exactly! Duplication costs nothing and as such should be free to all. If all of the audience copies it for free instead of buying it, the creator makes nothing. This never happens, and you'd have to have the strangest mindset to believe it does. I've got three bookshelves stocked with nothing more than CC-licensed hard copies of books. (I actually just spent $200 acquiring a mint copy of one that was particularly special to me as a child a couple of weeks ago.) It has ZERO to do with whether the book store is deprived of the use of the copy. Then maybe you shouldn't have made such a ridiculous analogy. It has everything to do with whether the creation costs are split evenly amoungst (sic) the users. Costs shouldn't be distributed evenly: people who can pay more should pay more, and people who can't pay at all shouldn't pay. Here's an assignment for you: imagine writing a book or creating a movie. Sure. I'd argue that books are objectively more valuable than movies, but you're obviously not taking this at any level but the most superficial. Now imagine that everyone pirates a digital version instead of paying you. Completely unlikely[1], and also ignoring that theater sales are where movies actually get the majority of their revenue, but sure. [1] It's actually impossible, because the pirated copy had to come from somewhere. Do you feel okay because no one deprived you of your original copy? I'd recommend looking up Drew DeVault's words on this topic. He recently wrote a book, was receiving reasonable royalties from it, all the while it was licensed under a CC license. Or are you depressed because everyone is using your work but not paying you what you asked? People don't have a right to a business model, and if we're making decisions on levels of depression now, I declare that the idea of hypercapitalist nonsense like you're advocating for and that the current intellectual property system defends is depressing to me, and we have to change it now to something that supports authors (or, radical idea, everyone) while also not robbing the public of information.