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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Yeah, it does. The penalties are too high. Outside of that, what else? You have no right to use someone else's work without their permission. How does that stifle innovation?
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Napster and Bittorrent were both innovative products in their time that were originally used for almost entirely unauthorised content distribution, and have been adapted to work in a commercial way (mostly for TV content).
More recently, Amazon's new Cloud Player service has been described as being like legalised murder, and there are already plans to squash it dead due to copyright concerns.