OK.
I ran through the rest of the thread, and since yesterday, at least two people admitted that they wouldn't copy a Ferrari out of thin air, because that would hurt the industry.
amp316, superchunk: Unfortunatelly, you are luddites.
Our hypothetical car-creating magic is not different from a new machine, that would make producing Ferraris extremelly simple and cheap. Your logic naturally continues in the idea that we should not use any new technology, because that would take away jobs, and hurt the old industry. That's a fallacy.
If everyone could copy a Ferrari, the car industry would indeed go bankrupt, and people would lose their job. (If they would invent that machine, it would simply become more efficent and smaller, but people still would lose their job). But looking at the bigger picture, everyone else would save lots of money for not having to buy another car ever, they would spend this money on other things, the economy would rise.
It's almost the same with information technology. The publishers could search for alternative incomes, to survive the change, but simply banning piracy is like banning machines to save the old ways of the industry.
