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		greenie_beans 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing... i wrote a book and copyright was not once on my mind. having created something is the incentive to create for most artists

sanderjd 8 months ago [–]

I don't think we can infer the motives of most artists from your personal motives.

greenie_beans 8 months ago | [–]

fine, because that means your claim that artists create for the copyright incentive is also false

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