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Best i can tell, copyright is a topic that allows up and comping politicians to virtue signal and/or for the economic powers that be to test the allegiance of r
by digi_owl 8y ago
Best i can tell, copyright is a topic that allows up and comping politicians to virtue signal and/or for the economic powers that be to test the allegiance of rising political stars.
It is also a dry subject that most people don't care about until they get a sour letter from some lawyer because Timmy discovered bittorrent.
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoIt is a dry subject, but make no mistake, this is not just a pet subject of individual MPs/MEPs. The "value gap" argument used to justify the EU copyright directive is right there in the 2017 Labour manifesto: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/labour-manifesto-2017.pdf https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/labour-mani... The conservatives have used similar but more general language as well.