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To be fair, it is ridiculous to advocate that the solution to a broken system is circumventing the laws. Fix for the problems for copyright and intellectual property systems can't be "heroic" VPN companies.

Kim Dotcom become filthy rich by selling access to copyrighted materials and turned into folk hero of the alt-right. He was selling other peoples work per the kilobyte when kids were persecuted for copyright infringement, videos taken down for using a few second of music or a clip from another video . That is not a fair system.





>To be fair, it is ridiculous to advocate that the solution to a broken system is circumventing the laws.

The American Revolution would like a word.


The US independence wasn't a bunch of people circumventing laws.

Britain would disagree.

Standing up and saying you will not follow a law isn't circumventing it.

Throwing a revolution and creating a new country with its own legal framework, however, is.

In fact, it is probably the ne plus ultra of law circumvention.


>it is ridiculous to advocate that the solution to a broken system is circumventing the laws

can you explain precisely why this is a ridiculous concept?

it seems like an extremely reasonable course of action in some situations.




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