Why do so many people on the Internet default to a completely unnuanced worldview? Like there’s more than two diametrically opposed options that can be taken.

Everything done with skill is art. From Citizen Kane to the design of a candy wrapper.

By having the resources to create and distribute a product with polish.

Acting like you’re smarter than the people you’re talking to while missing the very obvious point that we’re not starting from nothing. Being pedantic about me referring to piracy by what it’s called now doesn’t change how impractical it would be to have no ownership at all of ideas. Why would anyone pay for content at all?

Your “solution” means no one can make a living doing creative things. The current system has flaws that can be fixed. “No system at all” is worse for literally everyone involved, both creators and consumers of said content.

You should stop publicly felating yourself over how unshackled your mind is, since this idea is so incredibly stupid.

Someone must have thrown a fish to a penguin there once, giving US a 100% trade deficit…

The entities with the established distribution networks will make the money, not the little guy who makes their own little story.

If I write a little seld published novel, under your system, Hollywood can just take that story and make a movie of it without my permission. How is that better? You think more people pirating will take down these mega corps? Your system is chaos that’s even worse than the current model.

That’s a great plan for letting those mega corps steal from the little guy EVEN more than they already do

Yeah, but think about the grandchildren of the CEO who bought that IP from the artist‽

Do you want them to starve have to work for a living?

Well, artificially increasing the price of all the raw naturals we use to make those things will certainly help with that goal…

Ooh boy, does my retirement account feel liberated.

There’s one in the white house. Why don’t they seem to care about that one?

It’s not cost cutting when he’s managed to waste half a trillion with his ineptitude