> Make something as easy as pirating and people will pay for it.

Would they still pay for it if all the content could be posted ( by 3rd parties ) on platforms like YouTube and viewed for free (besides the ad revenue which would be going to Google rather than to the author and/or companies that produced the content in the first place)? Of course that question doesn't make a lot of sense since most of that content wouldn't exist in the first place...

(I wasn't talk about piracy but rather responding to a comment advocating the total abolition of IP laws)