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The entire point of copyright is to prevent freeloading; see Posner. Without protection, a rational market bids the price of content down to its marginal cost, which is zero. In a market that prices content at zero, no content is created. Freeloaders hurt everyone.

The GPL case and the movie case are identical. The same argument can be made for both that a single marginal case of infringement imposes negligable costs.



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