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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you referring to the DMCA? That was never to help the little guy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no i should have specified. i meant the very idea and instantiation of 'copyright' itself

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, I see. Yep, the Statute of Anne broke up the Shakespearean monopolies and after that brief high point, it was all downhill.