Abolish copyright.

You can charge for material things - paper, ink, packaging material, the time of the workers to prepare it. You can even charge for bandwidth, server upkeep, and electricity. But information has no material cost and therefore cannot be sold.

Exercise civil disobedience: it's your obligiation as a good citizen to be a pirate. We can negotiate again when they change the law to make copyrighted works enter the public domain within our lifetimes.

@sir Yes, this makes total sense, because of course every copyright holder is an evil megacorporation out to deprive you of the culture you richly deserve, as opposed to an independent artist struggling to put food on the table.

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@wizard @sir Artists will still be able to sell their work. Removing copyright will change which business models are sustainable, but I bet that independent artists (especially those already on platforms like Patreon) would see no difference to their business model.

@leroycepearson @sir literally no business model will be sustainable except for "hope that people like you enough to pay you completely voluntarily" -- which sometimes works, as Patreon shows -- and which is better than nothing but it ain't much.

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