alt Hacker NewsDestroying the profit motive would cripple human progress more than paywalls ever could.
>If the work was worth anything, it'll get paid back by the thankful reader who can afford to pay.
Comically naive.
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kjkjadksj • today at 3:15 PM
Most everything on earth is pretty trivial to pirate. And yet…
Only it's been shown time and time again that piracy does not destroy the profit motive.
As a personal anecdote, when I used to pirate things, I still bought things in the same category, ie: I would pirate movies and I still bought movies. I would pirate games and I still bought games.
I don't think it affected how much of each thing I purchased by much, but I don't really know.