there's a famous website, in my country, that would allow users download any document, from day 1.
it's similar to Scribd. Users upload documents and it happily collects all of them.
then after 3 years or so, after having amassed millions of documents, including copyrighted books, this website locked all that content, forbidding any downloads. Even subscribers can't download the content. It's locked up behind a bloated and clunky interface, which made all that content pretty useless.
now that's what should be called theft, something very distinct from some user getting files for personal use...
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