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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
In any case, my main point was a reaction to your put-down of those making their darknet confessions. I wasn't stating my position, but saying that one could reasonably take such a position. Personally, I'm not sure what the best balance is between rights for copyright-holders and rights for the pubic, but it seems significantly over-balanced towards coprorate copyright-holders at the moment.
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It wasn't really (in intention at least), a put down of people making confessions, rather a reaction to the moral gulf that people create between their (self)-justified Darknet activities and the activities of those apparent moral derelicts whose justification for using the Darknet might be different. The way the discourse is constructed it's as if the difference between the two types of activities is analogous to the difference between forgetting to pay your bus fare and systematically and maliciously defrauding your dear old gran out of her life's savings. It's not. None of it is that important - if any of it really made an impact on corporate copyright holders it would have been stopped.