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"The internet was created to share and distribute data. It's the whole reason the world wide web exists. Of course some of that data is going to be copyright-protected work. If it can be digitized, it can, and will, be shared. What continues to amaze me is how freaked-out authors are by this. The thought that someone is sharing their work--without paying for it--seems to evoke the same reaction as having someone hack your bank account and drain your life savings."

So maybe Coldplay is not a group of plagiarists; rather, it is a group of pop hacks working on tropes that the entire pop music industry since the 1950's has stolen from elsewhere. Originality is a tricky thing. Just ask Shepard Fairey.

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