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Comment by archgrove

Use case 1: Running a torrent site for the distribution of free, out of copyright, abandoned, or otherwise entirely unavailable works.

Use case 2: Distributing ripped off copies of easily available, expensive to produce, copyrighted works, largely made in the last 5 years, that the purchase of would help feed the creators.

I really hope for the first, but I'm depressingly certain it'll be the second. Mass copyright infringement is not some "noble cause". It's parasitic, adolescent, greedy, "I want it, so I'm entitled to have it" behaviour that makes me despair of large portions of humanity.

parent archgrove 12 years ago

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