The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that merit a prison sentence, an evident absurdity.
This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.
If copyright is sacrosanct then the creation of data by me is my own personal property and without a contract anyone holding my data is in violation.
Afraid to upvote this in case someone later attempts to prove I viewed this data with my eyes
Every single person in the EU needs to sue on these grounds.
Also fuck this corporatist statist bullshit. Why the fuck do people keep voting in authoritarians?
I can relate to the sentiment, but that just makes it worse. How do you enforce ownership of data?
There’s only 1 thing for it: More internet surveillance.