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throwaway82652 on April 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL fro...

But that's not true, if you didn't have copyright the biggest one would just copy everything and nobody could do anything about it. With copyright you have a way to sue them for ripping you off.

rglullis on April 16, 2022 [–]

Or maybe copyright and "intellectual property" is precisely what leads to existing a "bigger one" in the first place?

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