effort

so now that the semester's almost over and it's super crunch time, I've been thinking about the nature of effort and how it compares to todays issues, for instance copywright law, and why there is such a problem with piracy. So normally money is supposed to represent effort in a physical form. now normally to give credit to someone who does something in the real world, you pay them with your equivilent effort. for instance I buy a ham from a butcher and pay him with the "effort" I earned through my job as an artist. normally this effort also includes a middleman's effort to get something to the consumer, the effort of a brand's head and several others in between. now the problem today is that digital goods don't require those middlemen. If I wanted to produce an album I can get it straight to my audience. This is a problem because the physical object is the same product, but it's much more expensive because of the work that went into it. As for how this relates to copywright law, we recently talked about how in order to give someone your work for free, you need to be credited with creating it. Now the reasoning for this goes back to effort. If I want to give my product to people without them having to spend their effort on it, then they need to at least acnowledge that I put effort into creating it. Why? why if I were extreemely alturistic as well as being humble would I absolutely have to be acknowledged for my work? It's because legally there needs to be some recognition of our work, there needs to be a record somewhere that we put in effort. But why is this necessary? Where does this benefit our economy? Where does this benefit our society? If someone wants to give something away compleetely why should we stop them? Because they need to proove that they have the item in the first place. If there is no record of you having it to start with how can you give it away?