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by cortesoft 46 days ago
You comment shares bytes with copyrighted content, does that mean you broke the law?
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Context matters.

“Here’s byte 0x67, which is at offset 0x729B1A38 of Copyrighted_Blockbuster.4k.mkv, as requested” is different from “here’s byte 0x67, and it’s the first byte of my text response to your comment”.

What colour are those bytes? https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23