Most stuff on the internet are free anyway, which should be ample evidence for my argument.
What stuff? Stuff that's paid for with advertisement dollars? Do you think this stuff would still be free or marginal cost without those advertisement dollars? I think the fact that so much software and media (probably well over 90%) is paid for in some fashion by consumers (either through advertisers or directly) is evidence to the contrary of what you are saying.
Things would still be driven down to marginal cost. It would instead be pirated, rather than be supported by advertising dollars. It would mean that people would have to find alternative business models. So, it does not void my arguments at all.
Manga site operators borne the risks, not the users. Also, private channels effectively reduce risks effectively to zero.
There are also non-monetary costs to pirating, which are mostly viruses and time. However, they don't generally count toward monetary price, but they are cost nonetheless.
That being said, most people don't get caught anyway. So the risk is effectively zero.
What stuff? Stuff that's paid for with advertisement dollars? Do you think this stuff would still be free or marginal cost without those advertisement dollars? I think the fact that so much software and media (probably well over 90%) is paid for in some fashion by consumers (either through advertisers or directly) is evidence to the contrary of what you are saying.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Econ 101.
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