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> If it's forbidden for a human to move a stone with manual labour, then it's also forbidden to move that stone with an excavator.

Sure, but the reverse is false: I can walk on my own feet through Hyde Park, but I can't ride my excavator there.

Laws are made by humans for the benefit of humans, it's a political struggle. Now, large corporation try to exploit loopholes in the existing copyright framework in order to expropriate creators of their works. It's standard uberisation: disrupt existing economic models, insert yourself as a unavoidable middle man and pauperize the workforce the provides the actual service.



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