I'm trying not to have serious opinions about copyright online right now because there are so, so many more important things going on But I really feel like a lot of people I felt like I was on the same *emotional* page about this stuff I really wasn't, and that's interesting
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People on the Internet ALL THE TIME try to erode this superpower, this gift, this blessing of having something you did be forgotten as though it never happened, and they think they're doing the author a favor "Anyone happen to have a cached copy of this? Please please PLEEASE"
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I used to be that person all the time It just really struck me how different my attitude is now This author wanted to be forgotten, and if I actually give a damn about them as a person, I will immediately get to work forgetting them and move on with my life
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Even stuff like me telling you right now what it was about, or trying to reconstruct it from my memory -- which, not to brag, I'm pretty sure I'm capable of doing -- would be shitty of me Like, obviously I have the *legal right* to do it, but it's not a nice thing to do
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I mean If you buy a paper book, the author obviously doesn't have the right to break into your house and take it back. There are so many differences between these two cases, that it's not clear where that line is, and no-one's willing to spell out where they want the line to be
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And I'm not actually arguing in favor of self-destructing DRM that would've prevented me from saving a cache of the fic had I been inclined to do so at the time, for that matter
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