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The right to violate copyright is part of our human rights? Now I'm an occasional pirate (mainly TV, since I'm not in the US), but these guys are bonkers; I kn
by ashleyw 18y ago
The right to violate copyright is part of our human rights?
Now I'm an occasional pirate (mainly TV, since I'm not in the US), but these guys are bonkers; I know pirating is wrong, however these guys seem to think that nobody should have the rights to their own work, and anyone should be allowed to take what they want without giving anything back to the owner. Is it just me, or is that absurd?
- alexfarran 18y agoI think the point is that there are other rights besides copyright, the right to privacy for example, and that where they come into conflict copyright should not automatically supersede all other rights.
- tocomment 18y agocopyright violates free speech, no? If I'm forbidden from singing happy birthday to you, isn't that censoring my speech?
- doki_pen 18y agoCopyright is not a human right. This is why it runs out. It was meant to be a way to encourage people to create a long time ago. Sharing, on the other hand, is a human right. People were willing to sacrafice this right when they had no means of sharing. Many things have changed since then and we need to think of what rights we sacrifice and what we get in return.