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I'm sure they're going to be very fast at removing things once the relevant copyright owners actually notice and send takedown demands. However, for all of the
by cbd1984 12y ago
I'm sure they're going to be very fast at removing things once the relevant copyright owners actually notice and send takedown demands. However, for all of the copyrighted material for which they never receive a notice, how is it immoral for them to host it? If nobody cares, nobody's receiving any money from their ownership of the copyright, so the hosting obviously can't be reducing their profits.
- joepie91_ 12y ago> If nobody cares, nobody's receiving any money from their ownership of the copyright, so the hosting obviously can't be reducing their profits. Well, realistically, that wasn't really the point of copyright to begin with anyway (increase/guarantee of profits). The point was a distribution/derivative monopoly for limited duration to allow a creator/inventor to recoup their investment. The whole profit thing is just a means to an end. If you look at copyright the way it was actually intended to work, it becomes very hard to argue that distributing abandonware should be prosecuted, no matter the circumstances.