Reply #148: You need to look up marginal cost. All digital media has zero marginal cost...

[joshcryer]

...because the resulting media can be infinitely duplicated. That's what scares the capitalists to hell and back. It fucking scares them so bad that they http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100713/17400810200.shtml">spend tens of millions of dollars suing people only to get a few hundred thousand dollars back (the lawsuits over copyright infringement tend to be settled out of court, and they're intended to scare people, not actually recompense authors with fictional damages).