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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
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.
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.
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The authors get paid to pass on their copyright, just as workers get paid to work. The ability to monetize their effort is freedom not slavery. An author decides to let a publisher handle his book rather than market it himself and receives a payment. It is one of the options available to authors and the author made that decision on his own free will. What is wrong with that, if a painter sells a painting, is that slavery, too?
So if someone views kiddie porn on a server placed in a country where that is not illegal that is fine and nobody should do anything to stop it?