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> The point of the parent comment is that, if the copyright people had their way, VCRs and the like would be irrelevant, because they would make it so that you

by tivert 4y ago

> The point of the parent comment is that, if the copyright people had their way, VCRs and the like would be irrelevant, because they would make it so that you _couldn't_ back up media. The (grand)parent comment didn't talk about any of that.

MPSimmons 4y ago
I don't really want to get into an argument on HackerNews about this, but I took it as read in this sentence: >This is what today's IP oligopolists would have happen to the bulk of culture
- rjbwork 4y ago
  Correct, this is exactly what I was referring to w/ that sentence.