I think we need to start caring about how laws affect the preservation of data, this is ridiculous.

I wonder if you would feel that way if you were one of the artists whose copyrighted media was distributed illegally?

The problem is that copyright last way to fucking long and they keep extending it.

Well the average career is 30 years. So you think that if I was to start a photography business that at the end of my 30 year run, half of my career should be publicly available? That means that people could use half of my life’s work without owing me any compensation? Copyright protects a lot of small creators, not just Disney and the likes.

but if your work is good enough and better than your competitors it shouldn’t be a problem. that’s how the free market works right?

the problem here is capitalists want it both ways. they want to be able litigate any competition into oblivion… but hey, it s just business.

Way to sweepingly generalize something. I had to use copyright laws when I was a pro track photographer. I found out that one of the drivers owned a printing shop. He was telling people to purchase one photo from me at my price and then turning around, scanning it in, and re-printing them for the customers at a lower price. Same exact work, so you can’t argue about the quality. This fuck was also taking my images and using them in advertising which was also a copyright violation. This isn’t about who took the better picture as I was the person behind the camera. It’s about protecting work, that in my case involved time and actual sweat each and every weekend I was out in the sun. But it seems the majority of people in this thread think that he was justified in stealing MY work.