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human
CMV: Media piracy should be decriminalized if legal ownership of a copyrighted work is obscured, and the pirated media is distributed and sold at no profit to the privateer

Media piracy has a very controversial view among people. Many people believe that privacy is a positive good akin to recording history. Others view it as stealing profits from copyright owners. Both perspectives are true. However, there are times when a piece of media becomes lost to time either due to the original work being destroyed or a ban prohibiting the spread of such works. When this occurs, a new piece of "lost media" is born making legal viewing of such media impossible. In a scenario such as this, it is my view that spreading and viewing copyrighted materials should be legal as long as the work being distributed is truly lost media.

Piracy isn't always a costless job. There are material costs for recording, reproducing, and distributing copyrighted work. Allowing piracy to be legal without any regulation on the cost of pirated works can create an environment of price gouging, where the supply of legally acquirable media has fallen, inflating the costs of illegal media. An easy fix would be to require all pirated works to be free for purchase, but that ignores the material costs. This is why copyrighted works should be sold based on the cost of materials alone. Did the CD used to distribute pirated media cost $0.10? Then a privateer can only sell their bootlegged pirated media for $0.10. Privateers cannot profit from pirated works since they don't hold the copyright. They wouldn't face any criminal prosecution however.
gpt
Copyright is only enforced if someone claims it. If you distribute what you perceive to be abandonware, but the original copyright holder cares about it enough to notice you pursue a claim, was it really ever abandoned?