• ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You write a book, people start buying that book. Someone copies that book and sells it for 10 pence on Amazon. You get nothing from each sale.

    You write a song and people want to listen to it. Spotify serves them that song, you get nothing because you have no right to own your copy.

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      10 months ago

      That’s how free/libre and open-source software has worked since forever. And it works just fine. There is no need for an exclusive right to commercialise a product in order for it to be produced. You are basically parroting a decades old lie from Hollywood.