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I would rather like governments to punish abusers of copyright if the intent of it was to promote innovation and creativity. Since there had not been any attem
by Joakal 15y ago
I would rather like governments to punish abusers of copyright if the intent of it was to promote innovation and creativity.
Since there had not been any attempts to punish or reduce such disproportionate abuses, there's no place for more copyright legislation until that happens. And I'm not talking about people's perception of piracy. If I have my grandmother's birthday video on Youtube automatically taken down, the judge will ask, what damages did you suffer? Is law really asking for damages for freely sharing memories?
It's a good catch-22 to kill free sharing. Lose the ability to share or force people to sell their content in order to claim damages against companies abusing DMCA.
Continuing to push it further will paint a view of the proponents having draconian intents. Especially when such myopic legislation including restricting Internet goes against the original aims of copyright; promoting innovation and creativity.