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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9816804" data-attributes="member: 7015707">Nobody else will have to pay artists or writers either. There'll be no barriers to entry. You're imagining a world where the big corporations don't need an art department but everyone else inexplicably still does. Why would anyone even bother to buy anything at that point?(This is exactly the same issue I have with pro-IP arguments. People claim that if there were no IP protections than big corporations would just take all the ideas, but without IP the corporations would have no way of selling the ideas even if they did steal them - why in god's name would people keep paying the corporations for content if they could download it for free off of Project Gutenberg or Wikimedia Commons? To give a concrete example, would any of you here pay Disney even a single cent to see Steamboat Willie? Because I certainly wouldn't, I'd watch it <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_of_Steamboat_Willie" target="_blank">here</a>.)</blockquote>