Craig Sanders wrote:
What is the purpose of continuing this nonsense beyond the much more real issue, within this group, of the right to evade copyright laws and prosecution through illegally downloading movies and tv shows?
does anyone here seriously believe that there is an actual right to do that? or that there should be such a right?
This is the point when I usually cite these: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_(Macaulay) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Second_Speech_on_Copyright_Law IMO, 1. the length of copy rights are currently far too long; 2. in theory, the appropriate response is to fix the laws; 3. in practice, the world is run by oligarchs so (2) won't ever happen. 4. I guess copyright violation could be considered civil disobedience, but fuck it, I'll just reread Alice in Wonderland instead of ASOIAF.