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Well, you are missing the part where producing and selling new copies of e.g. libelous works can be forbidden in the real world. So the old copies will still be
by gmueckl 9y ago
Well, you are missing the part where producing and selling new copies of e.g. libelous works can be forbidden in the real world. So the old copies will still be around, but they have to be passed on privately. Effectively, this takes affected works out of circulation.
- jaclaz 9y agoNo, actually it was exactly the example I made, in the case of libel someone with a recognized authority (a Court) can seize/impound the libelous material and prohibit further publication (and of course not destroy each and every copy in the wild), but the procedure is very different from someone (remember not necessarily the actual Author, actually only the owner of the domain/site at a given moment) being able to prevent access to archived material published in the past (material that does not represent a libel and is not violating any Law) only because he/she can.