2026-10-07 21:36 UTC
When the US was a new country, one of the first things it did was stop respecting copyrights on British books.
For a full century between 1790 and 1891 the only copyrights that applied in the US were ones by authors who were residents or citizens of the USA.
I think it makes perfect sense to protest the USA by refusing to honour US copyrights.
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@bedwyr@piefed.ca 2026-10-07 22:35
Yeah, easier said than done. The pirating sites are on a whack a mole model, throw up clones in poor countries, they get shut down start a new one. Now search engines won’t link to them, so unless we get a search engine that is not giving the government a reach around, we won’t be able to even find those links anymore.