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> Making money from media is NOT a legal right. You don't have a right to profit.

> You have the right to attempt to profit from it and exclude others from doing the same with your work.

I think this is a distinction without a difference when the context is whether someone can interfere with your "attempt" to profit by violating your right to exclude others.



The context is that it's just a legal right and not a human one. It's one that society constructed for a purpose and then got extended further and further over time for commercial purposes.

People's moral compass does not always align with what's legal and at some point they may simply start ignoring the law.

Which is what's happening with copyright.




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