Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by pjc50 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:35AM
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> suggesting rights for content creators
Unfortunately this is pretty much a zero-sum game: this means taking rights off other people, potentially including huge fines or jail time.
And lots of people feel that they have no voice in whether their rights get taken away - and not just the "right to run a piracy website", but the right to repair their tractors, rip MP3s, have open-source software and so on. The heavy-handedness of the copyright industry has made a lot of permanent enemies.
Unfortunately this is pretty much a zero-sum game: this means taking rights off other people, potentially including huge fines or jail time.
And lots of people feel that they have no voice in whether their rights get taken away - and not just the "right to run a piracy website", but the right to repair their tractors, rip MP3s, have open-source software and so on. The heavy-handedness of the copyright industry has made a lot of permanent enemies.