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@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