I don't advocate breaking the law at all and I don't.
But
Art is not a job!
Art is not an industry!
If you create it you share it!
Simple as!
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The alternative is absurd. The system now is absurd.
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In medieval times, for example, musicians were just travelling minstrels, not quasi-godlike royalty.
Being a musicians or a performer in medieval times was almost like "just another job"....
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Art as an "industry" has its victims like other industries...