@Senator_Armstrong Shared copies aren't lost sales though, there are various reasons for this, particularly when international borders start to get involved (licensing, laws, censors, all sorts of nonsense).

I'm not disputing that the labor of creating art should be valued and those doing it paid.

I do however fundamentally disagree with any model founded on an oxymoron like "intellectual property" which ignores the actual value involved, where it lies and the interactions possible with artistic materials.

(It also ignores the many negative impacts which the imposition of the supremacy of its fiction involves.)