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Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by matheusmoreira on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:37AM (#28795798)
> Maybe we should stop trying to protect things that are easy to copy like website designs and wedding dresses.

Yeah. Copyright is nonsense in the 21st century where copying is trivial. It's holding us back.

Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by afiori on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:59AM (#28795901)
actually copyright only make sense if copying is easy, were copying hard then there would need no need for copyrights.
Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by matheusmoreira on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:24AM (#28796013)
Has copying ever been this easy though?

In centuries past, if you wanted to infringe copyright at the same scale we do today, you'd need expensive stuff like printing presses and a viable business model that pays for the costs of running an industrial copying process. That's what made copyright enforceable: you'd need to be a major industry player in order to infringe copyright and such centralized operations are easy targets for litigation.

Now everyone's got computers that can make and distribute a virtually unbounded amount of copies of anything to anyone within the network and there's pretty much nothing people can do about that.