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My favorite question to ask myself in copyright cases: Who was victimized?

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• zie 3y ago
  The copyright holder. They put work into creating the copyrighted thing. I think copyright that lasts 100+ years is ridiculous though.
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
    Could it be both parties for different reasons?
• mindslight 3y ago
  The policeman's grieving wife who opened her front door and was greeted by his old helmet on her doorstep. And then just as she makes peace with it as a comforting memento, it gets stolen again! Won't someone think of the victims! Seriously, draconian travesties of the "justice system" like this are one of the main reasons why I feel it's actively immoral to give money to the imaginary property industry. The other being their pushing of technological totalitarianism (ie digital restrictions management) that is directly opposed to personal computing and communications freedom. If the playing field were level I could perhaps support something like a 10 year term copyright with violations limited to being misdemeanors. But as things stand, we've got to starve this corrupt regulatory capture cancer.
  • mrguyorama 3y ago
    "You wouldn't download a car" is such a clear and demonstrative example of just how authoritarian and deluded large IP holders are. If you could get a car by downloading it off the internet, you would. More importantly, if anyone could get access to a car simply by downloading one, it would be so fucking unethical to punish people for doing that simply to prop up the profits of some business somewhere. You SHOULD download a car!