Piracy Is Progressive Taxation (2002)
&gt; Piracy is a kind of progressive taxation, which may shave a few percentage points off the sales of well-known artists (...), in exchange for massive benefits to the far greater number for whom exposure may lead to increased revenues.<p>The well-known artists didn&#x27;t agree to this &quot;exchange&quot;, so it&#x27;s invalid to characterize it as such (an &quot;exchange&quot;).<p>Taxation is a function of a governing body. Absent that, you do not have the appropriate kind of entity that can effect or validate a &quot;tax&quot;.