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Originally Posted by Quexos
If copyright holders and the whole establishment behind them had their way, there is a lot of material out there which you simply would not be allowed to access. In other words, money can be more important than individual rights and freedom to access knowledge and culture. Interesting.
So much for the "pirates being the evil guys and the copyright holders being the good guys" philosophy ...
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But it can come back and bite them sometimes. The relative importance put on the march of the Big Eared Mouse towards copyright immortality as against individual rights and freedoms is a big part of why ACTA got booted in the EU.