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Nobody here thinks that the law is a good idea or will do anything to protect any content industries. The fact is that despite being enormously stupid, it is st
by OskarS 6y ago
Nobody here thinks that the law is a good idea or will do anything to protect any content industries. The fact is that despite being enormously stupid, it is still the law.
- the_af 6y agoYes, I know I'm preaching the choir here. My point is that with each advance in technology, established industry "actors" panic because they foresee their business will go bankrupt. Sometimes this panic is justified, but often it's not, or it's blown out of proportion. It's not necessarily the law, either. Panicky industry heavyweights may lobby to make it a law, or try to confuse a given tech with copyright infringement, but "downloading videos" is not against the law.
- CodeWriter23 6y agoYep, the whole time they were focused on cassette tapes and Napster, the music industry completely missed the iPod/iTunes threat.