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I'm not seing the catch in this question. It'sbeen possible to tear out pages, write in the margins, underline things, etc. since books existed.
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
I'm not seing the catch in this question. It'sbeen possible to tear out pages, write in the margins, underline things, etc. since books existed.
- advael 5y agoPrecisely. People act like this DMCA anti-subversion nonsense is a necessary consequence of copyright as we know it, and that's fundamentally not true. Anti-subversion laws are a recent invention, were a horrible overreaction to some business models no longer being viable, and created the legal situation where merely using a device or a piece of software puts you, the end user, in a trap, where your autonomy is secondary to whatever business model the company that made it envisioned, enforced by the threat of ruin at the hands of the state. Now, I don't view IP in general as legitimate, but to say this nonsense the DMCA foisted on our legal system is a straightforward application of copyright as we knew it before is just ignorance, plain and simple