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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

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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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[-] finley@lemm.ee 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And you were doing so well, EU

[-] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago

Everyone will start saying "Fuck copyright" soon.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Some of us have been saying that for years

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