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Don't be. The DCMA is stupid, but the fact is, people DO post copyrighted material all the time, and it IS legitimate to take it down.

We want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether.



However, neither of the notices in the repo at the moment seem to be valid. Both are takedowns of circumvention tools which, as wtallis points out above, are covered in a different section of the DMCA to copyright takedowns.


I just unlicense my stuff.

I don't really care because I got paid anyway.


>I don't really care because I got paid anyway.

Right, and loads of authors won't get paid without copyright. So they need it.


They never even experiment with business model that doesn't relies on copyright.


Those jerks.


How are the ps3 utils copyrighted? Isn't that all reverse engineered work?


We want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether.

For whom are you speaking when you say "we?"




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