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    8 days ago

    Governments rarely realize anything related to IP that the copyright mafia doesn’t spoon-feed them, unfortunately.

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        8 days ago

        Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren’t doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.