I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here.
please argue. please do not remove.
theft rape and murder are criminal matters. copyright is civil, and, yes, the courts can adjudicate every individual case.
It’s…a civil crime. Not sure what your point is.
Just like theft, rape and murder…
no such thing as a civil crime. you are thinking of a tort.
except that sometimes those are statutory. fair use claims cannot be statutory.