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As far as I can tell, the copyright mafia's legal action plan is "throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks".

MPA tried to get the source code repository for Nyaa.si removed from GitHub by saying "the Project, which, when downloaded, provides the downloader everything necessary to launch and host a “clone” infringing website identical to Nyaa.si (and, thus, engage in massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows)."

It was completely bullshit since they forgot to mention that the project provides everything necessary to engage in massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows EXCEPT the actual copyrighted motion pictures and television shows. The repo is back up after a reversal: https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/

Ban Debian. Their distro supplies all the tools necessary to create a website with precisely the same functionality as Nyaa.si.

The only legal platform should be iOS, anything else should require a federal license.

Only once regular people can no longer write dangerous code will the music industry finally be safe.

RMS beat you to that joke.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Anyone who's never read this, please do.

It's both a good short story, and a chilling reminder - especially to anyone who's dealt with textbook companies recently.

RMS was right. Not about everything, but about a lot.

Numerous HN submissions, including within the past year.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Originally published in 1996, I believe.

Don't tempt me to break this rolling cipher with pen and paper.

It's sort of like saying the ownership of a gun makes you a murderer.

That analogy would work if countries with large numbers of privately owned handguns were as safe as (otherwise comparable) countries where such guns were banned.

I think we can agree at least that countries which ban communication tools have worse human rights records than countries which don't restrict them as much.

Also, I don't dispute the media industry's premise that a government which had complete control over all software installed on people's computers could decide to reduce the amount of copyright infringement.

More like a gun made of soap, as in "Take the money and run".

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