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This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And you were doing so well, EU

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Everyone will start saying "Fuck copyright" soon.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One can only hope. Copyright has, for a long time been wrongdoing against the public by denying it a robust public domain. We should have free access to ideas less than a century old.

This reveals, nonetheless, even European government is about control, not governance, enforcement of established hierarchy, not civil rights for all.

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Communism will start backing up piracy.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Some of us have been saying that for years