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by makeitdouble 254 days ago
Copyright was the base protection layer. Not in the "I own it" sense, but in the "you can't take it and run with it" sense.

With the current weakening of it, it opens the door to abuses that we don't have the proper tools to deal with now. Perhaps new ones will emerge, but we'll have to see.