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by Wowfunhappy 2488 days ago
We don't necessarily disagree, but what bothers me is when people blame Google for this, as opposed to focusing on the draconian laws that have forced their hand.
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poor Google, making billions of dollars out of other people's work with an automated system where it's impossible to talk to a real person. feel real bad for them
Poor me for the results our idiotic laws have produced. I do in fact feel real bad for me.
These laws didn't appear out of the blue, they're created and lobbied for by rich companies making money off copyright. Blaming Google for facilitating further abuse of copyright laws is a fair thing to do, and frankly, the unlikely event in which Google uses its money to put pressure towards fixing these laws is still more likely than the laws getting fixed because "we the people" somehow coordinated enough on the issue.