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		aragot on Dec 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What di... Consequently, it should be understood that bytes can't be stopped from being copied. I wish it wasn't just a point of view. What we're seeing with copyright is governments trying to prevent bits from being copied, which is a pharaonic task and a waste of resources.

ultramancool on Dec 11, 2014 [–]

Well said, it's definitely something that needs to be discussed. That however is separate from distributing simple numbers, which do not ever construct a work, in my opinion.

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