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Those are good arguments against the length of the copyright, but not copyright itself. I assume the author got their book pirated in short time (shorter than 1
by mtmail 4y ago
Those are good arguments against the length of the copyright, but not copyright itself. I assume the author got their book pirated in short time (shorter than 14 years) after release.
- yencabulator 4y agoIf copyright didn't always extend to cover all of Mickey Mouse's existence, would piracy be as popular?
- Planktonne 4y agoI don't think most piracy is early Mickey Mouse cartoons; if the argument for piracy based on copyright length was sincere, I'd expect to see almost exclusively older works pirated, but that's not what's most popular on the torrents.
- yencabulator 4y agoOh for sure the setting has evolved plenty from the early days, but that inherent conflict of resource guarding vs access is what drives a lot piracy. Other angles on the same continuum: - You cannot pay a reasonable amount to a single provider and expect to watch the television shows your friends talk about. - You cannot go back and re-watch your favorite television show on a streaming service where you originally watched it, as their catalog dropped it last year.