> I find it interesting that the HN community is usually deeply anti-copyright until they're own works or the works they like are used seemingly without permiss

> I find it interesting that the HN community is usually deeply anti-copyright until they're own works or the works they like are used seemingly without permission. Then we all become copyright nannies and strict copyright lawyers. Generally, I'd say the anti-copyright community gets angry when it is copyright advocates that commit copyright infringement. It doesn't really have to do with whether they like the infringed work - but when the very people who are actively working on maintaining, or even worsening the copyright situation (such as Disney) get away with infringing it leaves a very bitter taste, and is hard to forgive. People get angry when it is OK for Disney to break the law and make millions doing so, while a random kid doing it on a much smaller scale without earning a dime gets fined into oblivion. The hypocrisy and the injustice is worse than the crime itself.