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athrowaway3zlast Sunday at 1:01 PM1 replyview on HN

You call my comment word salad, but the model you present of supply-and-demand is so shallow it can't be used to explain why copyright was first created, and what problem it solved.

Something that legislation about copyright usually does get right.

This Santa Claus version of reality is exactly the kind of mainstream ignorance I was complaining about.


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memcglast Sunday at 1:55 PM

"As a very flattened retelling of history, it was only with the boomers that we reached the tipping point on how people started to think about copyright (Copyright != Attributed Authorship). With them, a majority started to believe in a world where the human history they consumed was a gift from the past, and that what they themselves create must be bought by future generations."

I honestly just don't know what your are trying to say and what it has to do with boomers. Are you just talking about physical media copying of books, CDs, DVDs, etc.?

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