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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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[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lets see Courts opinion on ~~AI~~ LLMs.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Hold on, let them check their bank accounts first.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago

Great... so we're reaffirming that society's various structures exist purely for the benefit of monied interests, as ever. Any benefit the regular person sees from arrangements is purely coincidental, your rights stops at the point at which a corporation needs them to.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Property rights being valued above human rights is kind of a mainstay of capitalism.

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are clearly a corporate shill so I’m not going to bother responding to any of your bad faith arguments. Your entire comment can be summed up by saying you don’t believe anything a person makes belongs to them. I hope your life in Russia or China is enjoyable.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

This has to be a copypasta

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If copyright is sacrosanct then the creation of data by me is my own personal property and without a contract anyone holding my data is in violation.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Afraid to upvote this in case someone later attempts to prove I viewed this data with my eyes

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