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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
I don't even know what that Gandhi thing was about.
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Basically in India the British government tried to impose a salt tax and made it illegal to pick up naturally occurring salt. This gave a very abundant commodity (salt) a value that it would not normally have had and which could only be maintained with strongarm legal tactics.
My point is there's a parallel with digital distribution because there's $0 cost to produce additional units, just like there was no cost to produce salt. Ghandi simply picked up salt in an act of defiance and I think a lot of file sharers think they are doing the same thing.