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There is no right to piracy in the constitution of the United States. And I would never vote for such a thing. If you actually care about democracy.


The public domain still exists. It's functionally equivalent to a right to piracy, and is written into the constitution. Note the phrase "limited times":

U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 | Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”


Oh come on. That's such a weak argument.

No one is claiming that accessing media that is in the public domain is piracy. We are specifically talking about media that is not in the public domain.


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

this is what happens when major profitable works hit the public domain deadline.


I think the idea is that we wouldn't need piracy if media would enter the public domain after a sensible amount of time. Now that disney + sony are essentially legislative branches of the us government we can be sure that nothing of value will enter the public domain ever again.


So, this right to privacy doesn't exist because it only would apply to things it doesn't apply to?

If that's the case, your argument is a tautology:

"There's no right to do things that you don't have a right to do."


The first amendmend does grant you the right to free speech, which "piracy" is.

The constitution also allows the government to limit that right "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."

There are quite a few limitiations in that right that current copyright laws arguably go beyond.




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