• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    You can’t just run a cipher on a copyrighted work and say “it’s not the same, so I didn’t copy it”.

    Yes I can. I can download a Web page, encrypt it on my machine, and I’m not distributing said work.

    And “distributing” is separate from violating copyright. It’s not distriburight, it’s copyright. Copying a work without authorization for private use is still violating copyright.

    That’s just false.

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      1 year ago

      You absolutely do not know what you’re talking about. This is just trivial copyright law, but there’s a weird internet mythology that if you can access something on the net you can take it as long as you don’t share it further. The reason the mass-sharers tended to get prosecuted is because they were easier and more valuable targets, not because the people they were sharing it with weren’t also breaking the law.