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2025-07-03 05:04 UTC
@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social @nargacutie@dragonchat.org @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world I can't check the wording of what I replied to. Apparently they disliked it enough that they blocked me.
As I remember it was something along the lines of books should be free. And you know, if there was a UBI for everyone so that people didn't need to rely on doing something for income then it might be.
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@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social 2025-07-03 05:12
@ariaflame@masto.ai they wrote "good. access to knowledge should be free." I understand why they blocked you: your point (no new books) has been disproven again and again and again whenever scientists actually made a study to investigate whether free access (via p2p) caused financial losses to artists. Even the "displacement" study of the EU commission could only find a small effect on blockbuster movies, but nothing else. For a list, see https://web.archive.org/web/20240101120718/https://wiki.laquadrature.net/Studies_on_file_sharing#Economical_effects_of_filesharing @nargacutie@dragonchat.org @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world