Reading this article, I realized that the author’s views on copyright violations are incomplete. To fight piracy in the U.S., it’s necessary not only to lower the prices for CDs and DVDs, but to lower them to the extent that no one would want to get the copyrighted material illegally. Would you spend your time copying a CD or downloading a movie from the Internet if you could own it for a dollar or two? This would increase the sales of the copyrighted work and the artists would be better off. If it’s not going to work, why don’t we make all copyrighted material a public good (which everyone can freely share) and let the government pay artists for their work?
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