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I have a lot of beef with existing copyright legislation, but even more than that, I hate the two tier system that we currently have for enforcement of existing laws. Aaron Schwartz had the book thrown at him for downloading papers
And finished his life due to it for those unfamiliar with the matter.
Yes he would have loved to see us empower copyright as a response to that! /s
This isn't about empowering copyright, but interpreting the law as it stands. If we held corporations to the same standards as regular people, it would expose how our existing laws don't fulfill the core goals of copyright. I like Giovan H's take on this:
Part of why copyright is so fucked is because there are some who are protected by it, but not bound by it, and others who are bound by it but not protected by it. We won't see meaningful change to copyright law as long as that continues to be the case
Which is exactly the same thing as empowering copyright.
The philosophical doctrine of copyright is fundamentally flawed because it's just impractical unless there's a god like entity to enforce it. What a load of bullcrap my dude.