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Why should we concede this "stealing" framing? If I want to put texts into my computer program, why should that count as copyright violation? I think that idea is as ridiculous as saying that reading a document is a copyright violation.

Regulate large cloud services and proprietary software - yes! But not on the basis of "Intellectual Property".

The "legal" issues here are very very complex and we should not passively wait for or accept corrupt court rulings, international trade agreements, proposed laws, or worst of all propaganda that pushes a parochial and craven view on this.



The large corporations called it stealing when people downloaded data for their own personal use. People were put in prison. Let's not advocate for rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me.



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