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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, but how does copyright law REDUCE the rights of authors? Copyright law gives authors rights that they don't have without it; it doesn't take any rights away from an author. And what on Earth does any of this have to do with what we're discussing here?
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I didn't say that copyright law reduces the rights of authors, I said that authors now have less rights than before the copyright laws came into existence. This happened because the law permitted the rights to be passed. A social system where people can sell themselves into slavery has less freedom than a system where this can't happen.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
These sites are breaking British copyright law by aiding and abetting copyright infringement. But, given the fact that the site itself is outside the reach of British law, the best that the law can do is to try to prevent British people from accessing the sites. It's far from ideal, but it's probably the best that can be done at the present time.
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They are not breaking British copyright law. If an 18 year old drinks alcohol in a country where 18 is the legal drinking age you wouldn't say that he is breaking the law in countries where the legal drinking age is 21 because he isn't in those countries.