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Someone with more money and more resources than you profiting off your work.

Fair theoretical point.

Please do name one industry, niche or platform where copyright does actually prevent this from happening in any meaningful way today.

No. I’m not the one arguing for the system to change. It’s up to you to explain how my hypothetical scenario wouldn’t exist in a copyright-free world.

use of GPL code in a subset (obviously not all) of proprietary software

So same as with copyright then.

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