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> Your photos are just bits, information. Trivially copied. For you to be able to "dictate" literally anything at all would require control over the computer I'm typing this comment on and every other computer on earth

Do you feel the same way about companies violating open source licenses?

Your medical records are also just bits in an EMH system as are your text messages to your significant others. Is it okay if I share those?



> Do you feel the same way about companies violating open source licenses?

Of course. There should be no copyright nonsense to begin with. Those licenses shouldn't even exist. Nor should anyone ever be punished for using leaked or decompiled proprietary source code or anything of the sort.

> Your medical records are also just bits in an EMH system as are your text messages to your significant others.

Medical records are collected by healthcare professionals who are ethically and probably legally obligated to keep it secret. This confidentiality exists for obvious reasons, nobody would consult doctors otherwise.

> Is it okay if I share those?

You don't have access to them. You can't share them even if you wanted to. Unlike copyrighted works, those bits shouldn't be and actually aren't distributed to massive audiences worldwide. Everybody understands that once information is out there it's essentially impossible to contain it. That's why they keep it secret.

Only copyright industry is delusional enough to want to sell copies of data to everyone on earth and control what they do with it.


> Your medical records are also just bits in an EMH system as are your text messages to your significant others. Is it okay if I share those?

Medical records are covered by separate body of law, so is a conversation with your lawyer, and so are matters of National security. They have no relevance to copyright


Yes and yes. (But also, it's trivially easy to state why that type of information should not be shareable in a way that wouldn't apply to commercial photography, you can assuredly come up with these yourself with a minutes thought)




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