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A work that is not shared has no value and there should be no criminal sanctions to protect something of no value.

You don’t get to misuse violent power of the state to control spread of arbitrary information



Literally everything "of value" that was ever published was unpublished for some period of time.

Also, people may keep works private not because they lack value, but for other reasons.

As a very simple example, a someone might take a racy photo for their own private use, not because it would have no commercial value, but because they prefer not to commercialize it. And there are hundreds of other reasons why someone might choose not to share a work with the world.




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