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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by briandear on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @01:21AM (#4473255)
What's your address? I want to help myself to all of your stuff. So what if you've worked for it. I want it so I should have it. Private citizens ought not have the right to retain ownership of anything. Everything should be free right? So let's start at your house. It's cool though, you can have a kickstarter to buy new stuff. I might even chip in $5.
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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by EliRivers on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:08AM (#4474348)
Once again, a refusal to acknowledge the difference between taking a physical object and making a copy of some information. They're DIFFERENT THINGS.

I'll say that again for the hard of thinking. Taking a physical object is NOT the same as making a copy of some information.

Put another way, just to make sure, making a copy of some information is NOT THE SAME as taking a physical object.

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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by derleth on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @03:41AM (#4473566)
I want the right to root through your mail and remove anything that belongs to me. You can trust me because not trusting me means you're stealing from me, and stealing is wrong.
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