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> There are outstanding distribution licenses with many companies for many different parts of the world which can't just be wiped away so this service can just
by randomdata 15y ago
> There are outstanding distribution licenses with many companies for many different parts of the world which can't just be wiped away so this service can just spring to life.
Copyright is not a right, it s a privilege given to promote the creation of new works in exchange for reasonable access to that work.
Hollywood could easily lobby the government about their contracts not being in the spirit of copyright and that they need to be wiped clean in the interest of the American people.
Instead, they lobby to reduce the reasonable access even further. Forcing people into pirating even more.
I guess they know they have a better chance changing the law for 300 million people than to change it for a couple of other corporations. Pretty sad, really.
- greyish_water 15y agoCopyright is not a right I don't think you've thought that through. Forcing people into pirating Nobody is forced into pirating.
- randomdata 15y agoYou are right that I did not choose my words very carefully. The underlying point still stands.
- chaz 15y ago> Copyright is not a right, it s a privilege given to promote the creation of new works in exchange for reasonable access to that work From the U.S. Constitution, on the powers of Congress: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."