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by Seth » Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:52 am
Făkünamę wrote:Seth wrote:I think idiots who think content copyright protection in the digital age is "censorship" are complete fuckwits.
What about regular people who think that?
Ipso facto if you believe that content copyright protection on the internet is "censorship" you're an idiot.
First of all, no private entity on earth can engage in "censorship" of an intellectual property they own. Censorship is purely a government act. All decisions about what to distribute and not distribute made by private industry is know as "an exercise of the right to choose to distribute or not distribute in the marketplace things owned by the company or person."
Since neither you nor anyone else has any right whatsoever to demand, much less expect that the creators of a copyrighted work distribute that work AT ALL, much less without charge to anyone who wants it, there is no censorship going on.
Censorship ONLY occurs when a GOVERNMENT prohibits the CREATOR of an intellectual property from marketing that property to the general public.
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