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> the law is broken

according to some theory, the law is always broken in some ways, but the practice of a lawful society is to converge towards not-broken, over and over again. Is theory consistent with practice? well, ask yourself which governance, which language group, which implementors of law.. since they are composed of humans.

While we are at it with a thought exercise.. how are large tech companies with new sci-fi tech breaking laws at will for profit, so different than horse-lords or Roman legions taking what they will and "fixing the mess later" .. ?



You can make a loose analogy, but there's an enormous difference between violating IP rights and literally stealing things with physical violence.


There was a time when things like the music industry's comparison of piracy to stealing cars would be laughed at.


And now people argue blocking certain network elements from loading on a website is "piracy"

Its frankly disappointing how passified most internet users have gotten with regard to corporate BS in recent years


Well, when certain users have behplden themselves and their creature comforts to the corporate teat, that is expected to happen. Somehow, I doubt most Youtubers actually have the chops to set up their own hosting/streaming operation, plus maintain relationships with advertisers who pay their bills.

Does it not make sense then, that when such people have their livelihood threatened by the Ur-Intetnet ethos, that they turn against it?

I don't condone or support it, but I can understand how the shift has happened.




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