Deleting the only available copies of movies (which might be the case for some of these works) starts to get close. After all, I doubt anyone here would defend

Deleting the only available copies of movies (which might be the case for some of these works) starts to get close. After all, I doubt anyone here would defend the Nazi’s book burning campaigns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings Before you say the DMCA isn’t the same, here are some modern incidents where copyright was used to censor things by repressive regimes: https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c228ed https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c22... https://www.accessnow.org/dmca-takedown-demands-censor-activists/ https://www.accessnow.org/dmca-takedown-demands-censor-activ... And a roundup of how it is being misused in other ways: https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca