> They did it anyway. If the post office decides to use illegal means to deliver your Christmas postcard, or steals a copyrighted work for the stamp it's not y

> They did it anyway. If the post office decides to use illegal means to deliver your Christmas postcard, or steals a copyrighted work for the stamp it's not you that should be punished. > social media has conditioned us to take other people's work and do whatever we want to it and with it. Perhaps but this is not the example with which to make this case. The material was already on the platform and they did nothing to appropriate it or profit from it. I am not familiar with the Japanese justice system although it's known for some very idiosyncratic situations. But using common sense one should not be punished for an action taken with no bad faith, no reasonable expectation of breaking the law based on how another party decided to implement that action.