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This can't be a coincidence right? Its a way of saying that DMCA/lawsuit takedowns are digital book burning.


Except there are plenty of legitimate DMCA takedowns.


A 451 could be used in a lot more cases than just DMCA takedown'd documents.


For example, court-mandated gag orders, nondisclosure agreements, national security, etc.


There have been plenty of "legitimate" book burnings.


Destruction of 'counterfeit' media. Because after all, just because you have a vast zero-scale network on which to distributively backup the collected artistic works of society in real time, doesn't mean you should, obviously. I mean, that would amount to the most complete open library of knowledge ever created in history, which would make so many existing business models obsolete that we just can't justify doing it, for the sake of the economy, cos y'know, money works, right?




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