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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I believe you've just described Demonoid.
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Copyright is a first-world problem. It's a contract made among people of means, with the premise that everyone involved can afford monopolies on information. And inasmuch as it's being used to stall progress in developing areas and support oppression of the poor, the "Robin Hood" approach is very reasonable.
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Actually, copyright is very much a European concept. One of the big reasons that there is so much copyright piracy in the various non European countries some of which really aren't what one would call third world, is that there is no real concept that supports it. China has a long and rich literary tradition, but absolutely no historical concept of things such as copyright or even plagiarism. Historically, the Chinese see absolutely no issue with taking a work, filing off the name making a few changes and presenting it as their own or better yet, take something they wrote and attribute it to a famous historical figure.