This kind of thing is why the "free culture" movement from when I was in college was so utterly unsuccessful at winning over the hearts and minds of the vast majority of working artistshttps://twitter.com/JoshuaYJackson/status/1244269783610265605 …
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"I'm a fan of the BOOK, not the author, I don't see why I owe the author anything just because they wrote a book I like, they already got paid years ago" is textbook commodity fetishism - delusionally thinking you have a relationship with a product and not a person
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Like it doesn't matter what you call it "Copying isn't stealing", fine From a Marxist POV, is there still a person who performed labor, and did you gain value from that labor without their consent? Do they feel ripped off? Then you're practicing exploitation
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