I think the thing that really pushed me over the edge about copyright/free culture stuff is seeing people who really were playing the New Media Web 2.0 try-before-you-buy content game STILL got screwed over by pirates You can't say no to ANYTHING that people want online
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What it's come down to is that paying for art and media has come to be seen as purely voluntary, like tipping waitstaff And while it's not impossible to make money this way - waitstaff do survive on their tips - most waitstaff know that it suuuucks
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(And what's worse is the percentage of people on the Internet who just never ever "tip" and are SELF-RIGHTEOUS about never tipping is much higher)
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Speaking from experience, releasing something on a DRM free platform to be pro-consumer and have it pirated 5k times on day one
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