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What's the alternative to copyright then? Anything I create will be instantly reproduced and sold for less than I can afford to by some entity far larger and more efficient than me.

> Level the playing field, incrementally, for everyone else who isn't a trillion-dollar corporation.

There is no level playing field when you have individuals and trillion-dollar companies in the same market.

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Right, all this talk about getting rid of copyright and no one is talking about what should replace it? how would we we incentives people to write good books? to pour 1000s of hours of their time to produce new knowledge?

As we all know, not a single book or work of art was produced before the creation of copyright.

Does this mean we are willing to live in a world with less variety of books and authors? meaning only to let those who really want to advance knowledge, and willing to do so with no monetary reward? feels like this would lead to to a slow down in knowledge production. It's not like there was a healthy and vigorous book publishing industry pre creation of copyright. We're ok with going back to that era?

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