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		rickmb on May 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent It always amazes me that people who consider it an ethical issue by equating copyright infringement with "stealing", have no ethical problem with the fact that copyright law is being blatantly abused to achieve exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do, i.e. maximizing the distribution of original work. Copyright laws exist to serve society, not just a handful of corporations.

wccrawford on May 12, 2011 [–]

[Citation needed.]

Was it really meant to maximize distribution, or was it meant to encourage production? Because it -does- encourage production.

hxa7241 on May 12, 2011 | [–]

It is meant to optimise the trade-off of both. (Encouraging production alone does not suffice to justify it.)

See paragraph 2 of http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html

Given that, the original point stands.

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