Comment Re:What a shame (Score 1) 189
Is there a loss in profit for original work? No doubt, but I would argue
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The failure occurs at this point. You can argue all you want, and if you can convince content creators you are right they might go along with your suggestions to (presumably) give away all their work for free. After all, open source software developers often do.
However, what the Pirate Bay does is simply ignore the wishes of the people who created things, and profit off it. That's not winning arguments, hearts or minds. That's not even ethical. It's selfish exploitation of what could otherwise be a pretty reasonable and flexible framework.