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Re:"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" by dr_petes on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:14AM (#38579444)
Without sounding overly pessimistic, but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Finical interests, not the public’s, are to blame for the overly restrictive copyright laws.

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Re:"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" by saulpw on Saturday December 09, 2023 @04:04AM (#38580064)
The original US copyright law was 14 years with a 14-year extension if the author was still alive. Certainly financial interest (Disney) is to blame for that incrementally becoming 70 years after the death of the author.
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Re:"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" by happymellon on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:59AM (#38579716)
> but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Unless I misunderstand what you are says, I'm pretty sure we had libraries throughout history.

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