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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    One can only hope. Copyright has, for a long time been wrongdoing against the public by denying it a robust public domain. We should have free access to ideas less than a century old.

    This reveals, nonetheless, even European government is about control, not governance, enforcement of established hierarchy, not civil rights for all.