If I have a volunteer service where people ask me to come after the paperboy and individually redact all the ads in the newspaper with a marker, am I breaking the same law?

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mr_mitm 2 days ago | parent [-]

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kps 2 days ago | parent [-]

Why not? You're creating a derivative work without the permission of the copyright holder.

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scotty79 2 days ago | parent [-]

Because software has insane legal protections that no other medium has.

	▲	Eddy_Viscosity2 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, another example is that physical mail has way more legal protections than e-mail or any online communication.