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This can't be a coincidence right? Its a way of saying that DMCA/lawsuit takedowns are digital book burning.

• pavel_lishin 14y ago
  Except there are plenty of legitimate DMCA takedowns.
  • jlgreco 14y ago
    A 451 could be used in a lot more cases than just DMCA takedown'd documents.
    • byoung2 14y ago
      For example, court-mandated gag orders, nondisclosure agreements, national security, etc.
  • gue5t 14y ago
    There have been plenty of "legitimate" book burnings.
• ktizo 14y ago
  Destruction of 'counterfeit' media. Because after all, just because you have a vast zero-scale network on which to distributively backup the collected artistic works of society in real time, doesn't mean you should, obviously. I mean, that would amount to the most complete open library of knowledge ever created in history, which would make so many existing business models obsolete that we just can't justify doing it, for the sake of the economy, cos y'know, money works, right?