[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 9:21:59 AM UTC+12, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <e0b443f6-1a35-4161-b221-2af058c2a4bc at googlegroups.com>,
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: 
> 
> > Copyright law was not created to help out struggling artists, but to 
> > entrench the power of the publishers and distributors 
> 
> Perhaps to some extent, but it is a fact that without it, struggling 
> artists have almost no chance of making a living, so it does help them.

Realistically, struggling artists have never been able to afford the legal fees it would take to exploit copyright law for their own benefit. Too often, the law is used as a weapon against them <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160616/10483534726/appeals-court-gives-big-loss-to-record-labels-their-quixotic-lawsuit-against-vimeo-lipdubs.shtml>, <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160613/01084434693/pure-bullshit-amc-threatens-huge-fan-community-with-copyright-claim-over-spoiler-predictions.shtml>, <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160608/08084334657/canada-post-drops-ridiculous-copyright-lawsuit-over-crowdsourced-postal-code.shtml>.