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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Everyone will start saying “Fuck copyright” soon.
Some of us have been saying that for years
The purpose of the state is serving capital, not people.
I can’t even buy a movie anymore, so if I want to keep it I need to pirate.
How do I copyright myself and I every last bit of content that I create?
Any work you create is probably under copyright automatically, if your country is party to the Berne convention.
In Germany only stuff that has a certain level of creativity (Schöpfungshöhe) can be under copyright.
And how is that determined? I found the shit that I took this morning immensely creative.
It needs a certain level of individuality and personality of the creator that sets it apart from other, already existing works of art.
Fuck this is setting precedent to break open VPNs
ITT: people who apparently think the only online crime is copyright infringement.
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@Flatworm7591 oh thank fuck for that. oh geez it is such a relief to see these institutions workin on some common sense.
