• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Copyright’s explicit purpose is to encourage new works.

    Any form of “unpublishing” is theft from the public. You wanna say a guy can’t make money on a thing? Great, fine, go nuts. But nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

    • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      But nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

      Except for Mein Kampf, Birth of a Nation, and What is a Woman

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      1 year ago

      Yes, copyright exists to encourage new works - which the author ignored by creating content violating copyright law. Never mind the public, this dude stole from the copyright holders. He’s a pirate and he got caught.