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- Embed this noticeClaiming something has no value to society isn't up to any one person. Society itself decides that as it's subjective. Saying that you can only make money based on time you worked is a silly argument. Investments can produce passive income. And the business model depends on having more than one person pay for the product. Otherwise the price for the first copy would be astronomical. Insisting that each user pay is a way to keep the price down.
What piracy has lead us to is software and other digital media being offered as subscription services more directly (e.g. SaaS). So for those of us who actually prefer having an actual copy, that option is slowly going away. So you end up renting it more explicitly than before anyway.
I say all this as a proponent of FOSS. I use some of those products and have around 50 GitHub repos all with an MIT license. But the creator should get to decide if he wants to release his product as FOSS or not.