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While some people take issue with the concept of intellectual property and believe that all content should be free, I don’t count myself among them. In fact, for the most part I consider the anti-copyright fanatics rather juvenile and intellectually immature.
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You know what I find funny? The only time I ever hear about people who say "all content should be free" is when people argue against the statement. In fact, when I searched for the term, I didn't see one for-all-content-being-free supporter. I did find a false positive in which the author of a forum post clearly meant to say the word NOT, and in another section, "all content being free" was in reference to purchasing a game and then getting free content for the game in the form of new maps, which is clearly not "all content being free" as most people argue against.
Another post on a blog uses the phrase in a sarcastic tone.
I did finally find (on the 4th search page)
DulciTheory #7: Chords in the keys of G and A which has the following text:
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I have a VERY strong belief in the web as it was conceived by its
"maker" Tim Berners-Lee. I think 95% of all content should be free, so
all the content on my web site will be totally free for the forseeable
future: no toll booths and no passwords into "special areas". I may try
and figure out a way to offer up something extra-cool for people who go
out of their way to make a sizeable contribution to my efforts, though
this will more likely take the form of free CDs, books, or even
dulcimers!
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It doesn't sound much different from Steve Pavlina's business model: all content freely available.
It seems to me that the people who talk about "all content should be free" are arguing against people who aren't making an argument. Then again, maybe all of these people who think all content should be free are just not that popular or vocal, but then why is there all the noise arguing against their position?
Quite a few of the websites that do argue against the statement mention that there are a lot of people who support it. Wouldn't it be a lot easier to find them if it were true? Perhaps I just haven't been using the right search terms?