The specific works? Who knows. It’s irrelevant

My point is your original premise was wrong. Creation DID happen without IP laws. People DO create with out the need for compensation/copy protection.

I propose, people will create things because they always have.

Creation happened before intellectual property laws existed.

Creation happens that can be immediately copied with no compensation now, open source software is an example.

Me? None. But I left room for someone who might.

Seeding to ratios is self correcting, in my inexperienced opinion as I only share ISOs.

Unpopular thing sits on someone’s computer (not mine) for ages just happily waiting until it’s useful. Popular thing is in and out. Purely for files intended to be churned; try a distro (in facebook’s case a book), use it, and delete it.

1:3 could be said to be a minimum (1 for to pay back, 1 to pay forward, and 1 to pay for a leecher)

Things that are going to be archived can be set as limitless as long as strain on hardware can be tolerated.

I’m glad I’ve already pulled my audible library in to audibookshelf, I didn’t have many ebooks so didn’t bother with them. I’m moving to librofm this month I think.

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Yeah, I can understand that, I empathise with the frustration. We’re good.

Can we calm down a little, you don’t need to be so combative.

Those are my words, and that was your inference. “you” was referring to citizens of the United states. I could have made that more clear. I am sorry for that, I can be a not so great communicator at times. You can apologise for calling me a liar now.

With that little distraction dealt with can we discuss the topic civilly? Maybe, we can assume each other are rational human beings, that want similar things, and aren’t out to accuse each other of random shit? Please?

I don’t know what to tell you, I’m not Burt Reynolds. You just accuse people of things whether they’re true or not. I’m not sure why you think it’s okay to lie.

I didn’t accuse you of being a democrat, you just inferred that I did and started calling me a liar. Would you like to get back on topic?

Are you claiming I am a millionaire? Can you present some evidence to that effect? If you’re gonna tilt at windmills this conversation is pointless.

God I hate that Americans have decided that you vote for the person you like rather than vote to stop the worst person.

Turns out game theory [as described in this election] doesn’t describe how people (on aggregate) actually behave. It does describe how some people think people should behave (I may sometimes agree), but not how they actually do.

If I know you rationally follow game theory [as described], I’m going to offer you far less than anyone else because I know game theorists [as…] take any win, no matter how small. Ultimatum game? I offer everyone a 50-50 split, except game theorists, to whom I offer a penny. They’ll take it too.

Dems didn’t appeal to how people actually act, and so you all lost. Their supporters refused to acknowledge the reality of how groups behave, and so you all lost. [“you” means all of America - added for the misunderstanding]