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      Yeah, when you steal something from someone then he does not have it anymore. With indefinitely replicable virtual goods that is not the case.

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          … therefore we need to build and violently enforce a legal regime to ensure that content profiteers can extract 100% profit from every transaction?

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            I don’t make the rules. Blame shareholder fiduciary responsibilities or the spineless politicians. Corporations are gonna corporate

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              By that logic you can’t blame the politicians because they got bribed, and you can’t blame the citizens because of corporate propaganda and voila! No one has moral responsibility for anything

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                Politicians’ fiduciaries are their constituents though, so they are the failure there though if they allow corporations to get away with long term harm

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                  I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for some abstract shame or morality to guide politicians’ actions when all the systemic incentives point in the other direction