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Anti-circumvention also allows for effectively unlimited copyright: if the owner doesn't make a copy available without DRM, then there will never be a copy lega
by ascagnel_ 4y ago
Anti-circumvention also allows for effectively unlimited copyright: if the owner doesn't make a copy available without DRM, then there will never be a copy legally suited for long-term archival.
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- mindslight 4y agoIMO the rightsholder of a a creative work publishing the work with digital restrictions should make it ineligible for copyright protection, as the requisite equity that justifies copyright protection has not been met - the published work won't eventually become part of the public domain. This should also include any restrictive transformation of a creative work (eg compiling source->binary) unless the original creative work has been published or escrowed. Also, copyright should be limited to a maximum of 10-20 years. Of course these things will never happen politically, so pirate away. The real problems highlighted by the youtube-dl saga are the general reliance on centralized Github and the fact that most users' access to computing is mediated by centrally-controlled apps.