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Quite the slippery slope fallacy. You're also conflating civil and criminal law. Copyright is civil law. The government doesn't send the FBI in to ensure some
by zymhan 6y ago
Quite the slippery slope fallacy.
You're also conflating civil and criminal law. Copyright is civil law. The government doesn't send the FBI in to ensure some publisher respects that a book's copyright has lapsed.
- jeofken 6y agoOf course there is a violent threat behind copyright law as well - enforcing the right to ownership or the right to copy. Why else do you think anyone complies with laws, or cares what government decides? Government is about violent force