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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by Thorrez on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:01AM (#35018858)
If the motivation was ideology, why release non-censored versions?
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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by redox99 on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:06AM (#35018881)
To mitigate backlash.
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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by selcuka on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:47AM (#35019614)
True. And it's almost guaranteed that the uncensored editions will be "out of print" after a few months.
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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by japaneseminisub on Saturday March 04, 2023 @10:06AM (#35021276)
Copyright needs to include a concept similar to abandonware
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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by paulryanrogers on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:50AM (#35022244)
Then why not just shorten copyright?
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Re:Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions a... by account42 on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:24AM (#35039383)
Unless you shorten it to low single digits (which would be nice, but so are unicorns) you'd still want a way to make things available that the original author no longer has a commercial interest in. It doesn't benefit society to make things unvailable, even if it is "only" for 10 or 20 years.
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