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[–] fusir 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is one argument for making cp legal. If 4chan got their hands on it they would catch every producer. CP is ultimately documentation of a crime. They don't ban film of robbing a bank. The court's argument is there is no reason why the public could want access to that kind of material. Yeah there is. It's documentation of a crime and that makes it of particular interest to the public.

The other is that if you wanted to maximize the production of cp you wouldn't change any policy. D=CV*min(1,FR/FV)-CR. FR, being risk on non-paying parties has to be non-zero for their to be a functioning media market. This is why copyright policy exists. This is why when they made it a felony offense the production rate skyrocketed.

If you make it legal (but exempt it from actual copyright) all the people who make it will not make money, and second all will be caught by 4chan. What you do is you still make it technically illegal to exempt it from actual copyright but then don't go after it like some states do with marijuana thus not replace that copyright with a stiffer felony form.