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by creato 133 days ago
> Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to prison for.

No one goes to prison for this. They might get sued, but even that is doubtful.

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Aaron Swartz would probably disagree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Hell you don't even have to actually break any copyright law and you'll still find yourself in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
Just flat out false, and embarrassingly so, but spoken with the unearned authority of an LLM. See: The Pirate Bay.