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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 5 months ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that merit a prison sentence, an evident absurdity.

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.

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[-] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Lol yeah.

Good luck spending time and money investing in something that you know will have zero legal protection as 'yours' after you go to market.

I personally feel that a copyright does give confidence to product developers to actually develop products. If they felt they weren't going to get anything for their work they just wouldn't bother and our tech advancement would stall significantly.

[-] onion@feddit.de 18 points 5 months ago

You need money to defend your copyright in court, otherwise it's pretty meaningless

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

"No copyright" is usually flaunted by people who haven't created single thing of value (monetary or otherwise). Who never give, but always first to take.

To no one's surpise it's now a go-to argument of "statistical engine enthusiasts".

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

But the thing is, we don't need to develop products. New products are just further resource usage, more greenhouse gasses, more "infinite growth". Also, a company or individual having "an edge" in competition by developing something first is simply waste of resources. Now only they are allowed to improve upon it, make it more efficient, whatever. If this didn't exist, yea they'd be incentivized less to create it in the first place, but also now everyone could take it and make it better.

We have to go away from thinking as individuals in the direction of thinking as humanity.

[-] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I'd argue that it's naive to think we can ever think non-individually as a species. Maybe I've just become cynical as I've aged and experienced though, not to say you haven't also experienced - more that, if you have, your experiences have clearly been very different to my own.

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