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by yariik 1717 days ago
Nobody ever in Russia gets prosecuted for doing anything to any software for their own personal use. And actually there's been very few cases when someone was prosecuted let's say for using pirated software for their business. A couple of guys got unlucky and that's basically it.

And this is how it should be everywhere, the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago. Today, the whole copyright thing is bizarre.

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> the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago.

The copyright model is more recent than 300 years ago. It cannot have provided any benefit to any party before then.