User blog comment:P進大好きbot/Images without Copyright/@comment-3427444-20200131171829/@comment-27516045-20200201114157

@P-bot

I think this is just a difference of opinion.

You (adn the current law, apparently) think that there is no real difference between me stealing money from you and me copying an image you posted.

I, on the other hand, don't agree with copyright existing, at least not for digital stuff. Before the age of computres, for copyrighted stuff such as books and music, it was extremely hard for someone to make a second copy of it to give to someone else. If someone else took it from you, that's definitely stealing, or maybe you lent it to them for some amount of time. Now, this process is easy for any file - no matter who makes it - to be copied as many times as you want and posted wherever. And all this can be done without the original owner losing access, therefore it is not "stealing" or even "lending". Both the person who copied the image and the orgiinal maker of the image can do whatever they want with it - post it somewhere else, modify it, even destroy it - without anyone really stopping them.

What I'm saying is, it's a lot easier to "copy" stuff now than it was in the past.

further, why enforce this now? If it were actually enforced as a rule from the start, maybe I'd care more. THere's probably some things on this wiki (like the citation requirements) that I might have changed if I were in control from the start, but those were (mostly) enforced since so I'm fine with it. This copyright rule was apparently never enforced until now (Cloudy, feel free to prove me wrong here) when the wiki has been aruond for 11 years in some form. And then if these images were deleted, you need to be sure the image tag was removed from wherever they were used. I mean, if someone made an miage and uploaded it, then put it in an article, they clearly expected it to be used...