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Re:Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden by belorn on Sunday June 01, 2014 @08:01AM (#7828884)
I disagree, as I find it perfectly consistent attitude towards content restriction to be both for GPL, and to pirate content when its proprietary.

If people ignore content restrictions by pirating works, is that not consistent with the people who uses copyright to prevent content restrictions? Is it not also consistent with people who breaks content restrictions by breaking DRM?

In each 3 cases, content restriction is problem being dealt with. Preventing, ignoring or breaking, either way its dealt with.

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Re:Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden by mike_hearn on Monday June 02, 2014 @12:12AM (#7831842)
The GPL is not preventing content restrictions, it's adding quite complicated restrictions on what can be done with the code. The justification is to try and make more software GPLd in future but the means is additional restriction. And guess what? The justification for copyright is to ensure more content is created in future, and the means is restrictions on the created content. Just like the GPL. Trying to claim they're somehow different is a very weak sort of argument.
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