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actually copyright only make sense if copying is easy, were copying hard then there would need no need for copyrights.
by afiori 5y ago
actually copyright only make sense if copying is easy, were copying hard then there would need no need for copyrights.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoHas copying ever been this easy though? In centuries past, if you wanted to infringe copyright at the same scale we do today, you'd need expensive stuff like printing presses and a viable business model that pays for the costs of running an industrial copying process. That's what made copyright enforceable: you'd need to be a major industry player in order to infringe copyright and such centralized operations are easy targets for litigation. Now everyone's got computers that can make and distribute a virtually unbounded amount of copies of anything to anyone within the network and there's pretty much nothing people can do about that.