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Originally Posted by gideongallery
of course nothing stops you from selling your stuff if it also available for download for free on the torrents
open source companies like red hat do it all the time.
your trying to defend government granted monopoly control
if a restaurant in your example was the only place you could get chicken i would object to that too.
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I'm not going to debate you about monopolies, torrents or any of that stuff.
I was simply pointing out to him why musicians get paid over and over again for work done once. It is the same thing as a guy who creates recipes for a restaurant and sells them over and over again or a guy who creates a formula for a drug for a pharm company and he gets a piece of the action every time it is sold.
Every job out there isn't this way, but part of creating art, especially art that can be duplicated easily and distributed over and over again is that you can get paid for it over and over again.