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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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[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Do you want corps just stealing every new idea and product, cloning it, and muscling out the original inventor without paying them a dime? Because abolishing copyright entirely would be an excellent way to do that.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

That already happens. People who research normally do it under a wage and the invention goes to the company paying the wage. If not, a small inventor doesn't have the financial means and the lawyers to fight a big company copying their idea. The small person is never defended.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Someone has never seen Aliexpress..

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Property rights are the only thing that protects the poor from the rich. Sure.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Copyright is the only thing protecting us from getting absolutely fucked even harder by the rich than we already are, yes.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How does that work? By definition, a rich person owns a lot of property. Therefore, laws that give more power to property owners favor the rich. Copyright is a type of property.