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Once again, your entire argument hinges on forgetting that there is a cost to creating the material in the first damn place. And the way you recoup those costs today is to sell copies of the work. The transit method isn't relevant, because the purpose of copyright was to allow the creator to recoup costs in creating the work, not in selling it.



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