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Appealing to the power/bandwidth/storage costs is a cheap trick and always has been. They are irrelevant. The issue is the cost of creating content. Granted, i

Appealing to the power/bandwidth/storage costs is a cheap trick and always has been. They are irrelevant. The issue is the cost of creating content. Granted, it's not a continuous scale like water, but rather a massive one-time investment that gets paid off over time. Water is a poor analogy, but this scenario at least captures the fact that party A is incurring a cost and party B is reaping the benefit without compensating A.

angersock 13y ago
Now, one wonders, why is it this massive one-time investment? And does it really make the world a better place that we are catering legally to people with an inefficient business model? (the usual arguments about authorship, creation, and reward ignored for the sake of brevity)