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That's a weird argument to make. Maybe the businesses ("services") would have not existed with these laws in existence already. The question is would the world be a better place without them. I don't think the answer to that question is so straight forward.

We as society implement laws to prevent undesirable behaviour all the time. You can certainly argue that the law against robbing banks for example has prevented business innovation around bank robbery, but I believe this is a desirable outcome, and I think most would argee.



I think the answer is pretty straightforward to me. If the internet hadn't been what it was then I probably couldn't even communicate with you, because I would never have picked up enough English to do so. This is just one effect of so much of the internet being freely accessible. If payment had been required I probably would've stuck to my native language sites, if I had used the internet/computers at all.

I think the internet providing so much information for free is what made it so amazing. I understand that it's not really free, but it's at no monetary cost to the user. The moment you slap a monetary cost on it you create a disincentive for the user to engage with the service.

I do understand though that nothing is free. We are probably going to pay a large price as a society for it.




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