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by benabbottnz 1078 days ago
Then everyone will just use an auto-reply service.
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Which would be fine, because those services still cost money and/or require maintenance. There would still be a way to track down the owner of the copyright. You could even make it part of the law that the respondent must be the copyright holder or have had contact with the copyright holder within the last X days.