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Originally Posted by kane
Gideon believes that fair use gives him the right to buy some content then upload/seed it to torrent sites as a form of "backing it up to the swarm." He claims it is his fair use right to get free redundant back ups of content and that is all he is doing.
To me, and I think most people in this forum, that is piracy. That is distributing content that he doesn't have the right to distribute.
When you say shit like that to people who make and sell content for a living they tend to get a little pissed off.
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I understand that you don't like the guy's opinions and what he advocates for, but that doesn't really stop you from making money. Also, that is an extreme example, and not one that I think the law agrees with in the USA (keep in mind that in Canada, you pay what is essentially a piracy tax on recordable media, which more or less legalizes the sharing of content belonging to business that receive money from those taxes, kind of like a compulsory license).
There is a lot of misconception here as to what fair use is what what it isn't, and I'm surprised at how content producers don't understand the laws in place that affect them. Copyright is a pretty complex set of laws, and they aren't necessarily written to always benefit the producers. I've called out a few of these mistakes in other threads but sometimes I feel like I'm just pissing in the wind.