> Pricing something beyond its marginal cost of delivery is a restriction on your freedom? No. Choosing to price something you own beyond its marginal cost of

> Pricing something beyond its marginal cost of delivery is a restriction on your freedom? No. Choosing to price something you own beyond its marginal cost of delivery is not a restriction on freedom. What is a restriction on freedom is not allowing others to take something they have (a collection of words / pattern of bits / a SD card / a hard disk) and choose to give that away to others. The fact that in an internet-connected world allowing that will result in most people being able to acquire most files for no more than their marginal cost of delivery is a result of freedom, not a restriction on it. It seems extremely unlikely that you can keep the price on any widely distributed collection of bits much above 0 for an appreciable length of time without governments intervening to remove that freedom of sharing and copying from people.