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I find it strange that copyright law is becoming more and more restrictive. Before the Internet it was a lot harder to violate copyright laws and also one had f
by stse 17y ago
I find it strange that copyright law is becoming more and more restrictive. Before the Internet it was a lot harder to violate copyright laws and also one had far less legitimate reasons to do so. I mean 10-15 years ago no one cared about old movies still having copyright, because there was no way to distribute or watch them in an effective way. Also there are "markets" today where it's virtually impossible to violate copyright, one being playstation 3 games.
- roc 17y agoIt was still an issue. It just didn't affect the average person quite so much. The industry still hated vcrs, xerox machines, libraries, radio, mix tapes, etc. They still sued any time they could. It was just impossible for them to identify the people copying cassettes, taping concerts, swapping mix tapes, xeroxing a passage from a book, etc. And when they did try to sue libraries to, say, try to block their lending VHS tapes, the average person didn't take much notice.
- Retric 17y agoThey also lost a lot of important cases back then.