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[–] AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Modern copyright law is essentially a state sanctioned monopoly.

Rights holders should be forced to license the content to anyone that wishes to distribute it. As it stands now, they can lock it in a vault for generations if they wanted.