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PATRICK

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5. But to finish

Reply to PATRICK (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 09:39 PM

Saturday

since so many writers are forced to write without recompense anyway the readers can be competed for freely anyway.. Like Microsoft and Linux there are consequences to forcing people to be victimized by an unsustainable money trap when there is valuable work to share freely of greater value and no heavy price. Fan-fiction(even a withering parody), by the way, obviously grows the whole franchise. This kind of power destroys the claws of corporate greed.

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