We don't get to have an economy based on paying per copy in the digital age. Ransom and work for hire are unaffected, because nobody can copy work that hasn't y

We don't get to have an economy based on paying per copy in the digital age. Ransom and work for hire are unaffected, because nobody can copy work that hasn't yet been created or released. This is a good thing; rationing copies has been reducing every work's overall use value for society.