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Only about 5 percent of PUBLISHED novelists make enough from that alone to support themselves - not get rich, just support themselves. The numbers in the comedies & family ent. music industry are comparable. Those people who comedies & family ent. now say comedies & family ent. that "information wants to be free" are not spouting New Age mysticism. They are citing solid western legal and cultural traditions going all the way back to the Renaissance. A society requires a free flow of information to survive and advance. Cut it off and you get the Dark Ages - or the Soviet Union - a stagnant society spiraling into ignorance and poverty. The members of the RIAA (to use a prominent example) are attempting to create the impression that they own all music - and at the same time attempting to create technology that makes that a de facto truth, and to pass laws enforcing it.
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