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pjc50today at 8:56 AM1 replyview on HN

Eh, part of what made early-internet so good was exactly that it did allow copying by users; the DRM era was later. But it's a very good example of why not to allow for profit copying, because that absolutely will crowd out the original. Piracy has to exist at the margin. The zero piracy world would also eat its memories because none would leak into archives. Remember Qubi? It wasn't even popular enough for people to pirate.


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account42today at 9:24 AM

I think the lack of credit is even more egregious and a bigger problem than the commercial copying.

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