Comment by jMyles

2 hours ago

> Is there a convincing argument that the last century of software and music and books and etc would have been just as staggering without copyright?

> I would love to hear such an argument.

Fortunately, one of the many tentacles of the octopus most obviously at the forefront of the zeitgeist of the freedom that arises from a culture of free information - The Grateful Dead - had the outcome of producing - in the form of gripping autobiography - an extremely compelling, and seemingly utterly true and beautiful and good, instrument to fulfill your request:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36750087-mother-american...

If you don't want to read a whole book and just want a stump speech which kicks ass in the department of argument you're requesting, it's here: