That's a neat factoid, but my point was about repudiating the current boneheaded US foreign policy rather than anything to do with where copyright was invented.
The foreign policy of calling out silly censorship in Europe and violations of fundamental freedoms and making European countries implicitly acknowledge it by blocking a US site?
Seems great. Wish Europe didn't censor free speech.
That is ridiculous argument. Yes a coutry can have an idea and then 200 years later fundamentally disagree with self serving damaging implementation of it.
Largely because of American diplomatic/soft power, which has been significantly weakened of late, protecting the interests of American media conglomerates.
Every extension of copyright for the last several decades has been driven by the desire to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain.
They did that around the world, but they didn't have to in Europe -- Europe has pretty consistently had longer copyright terms than the US. The EU moved to life + 70 in 1993. The US did in 1998.
Regardless, my point is that copyright evasion is not anything that any European authority is interested in building a website to facilitate.
