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Now, is this an advantageous trade? Well, when the general public can't make copies because they can only be efficiently made on printing presses &mdash; and most people don't own printing presses &mdash; the result is that the general public is trading away a freedom it is unable to exercise, a freedom that is of no practical value. So if you have something that is a byproduct of your life and it's useless and you have the opportunity to exchange it for something else of any value, you're gaining. So that's why copyright may have been an advantageous trade for the public in that time.