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>>at1as+(OP)
Copyright infringement use to be the absolute worst crime imaginable if you asked the tech industry, that is until they started doing it themselves at scale and now they are claiming it’s the law that’s broken, it’s crazy.

>>klustr+Xn
> Copyright infringement use to be the absolute worst crime imaginable if you asked the tech industry

Every day hundreds of links to archive.is are posted[1] to this website to get around paywalls. Technologists built file sharing tools to subvert copyright. It has never been one of the worst crimes imaginable in tech circles.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru... (85 instances in the last week)

>>Permit+nr
You might be looking at a small time horizon.

What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists ?

>>avaer+zr
Let's not forget the death of Aaron Swartz.

>>direwo+bs
I don't think that was the "tech circles" being pro-copyright though.

I've never met someone who wasn't on Aaron's side on that one.

>>avaer+Ns
> I've never met someone who wasn't on Aaron's side on that one.

This rather says something about the people by who you are surrounded. I know quite a lot of people who are on Aaron Swartz side here, for example people who are in academia or those who left academia but are still deeply interested in scientific topics.

>>aleph_+8U
You agree with them

>>direwo+qW
Sorry, because I am not a native English speaker I misunderstood something. :-(