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Here’s the logical continuation of your analogy:

If the movie is showing in the park for free, you can stick around and stand to watch it, but if there was a better service at a reasonable cost, you could go home and watch it there more comfortably.



That's the rub; it's not showing in the park, because that's only possible if the park got permission. It's being shown in an alley


Works even better. You can stand in the dirty alley (with piss smell and dog poo) and watch it, or go home and watch it comfortable, if the price and service is right. Sure, some people will never go home (maybe they don't even have one), but most people will, given the right incentive.


Works great, until you realize the "alley" is a metaphor for doing something that harms the content creators...




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