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0 pointsbediger400010y ago0 comments

so it has to be big

I think you're putting too much faith in the usual meaning of words. Think about the wording of the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment (or 4th Amendment) and how different the legal meaning is from what someone who isn't a lawyer would expect.

I bet that "commercial scale" is "at least on the scale of that guy selling knock-off Nikes out the back of his van" after we make it through the courts.

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pluma10y ago

Technically, "commercial scale" can mean anything from "someone somehow made money while doing it" (e.g. from ads to pay for hosting) all the way to "how someone doing it for money might do it" (e.g. using a proxy or fake contact details). It's intentionally vague.

sp33210y ago

This section specifically says "not carried out for commercial advantage or financial gain", so it doesn't apply to people who actually make money from this. I don't know what section that's covered in though.

zardo10y ago

Commerce happens on all scales, therefore "commercial scale" could apply at all scales.

ISL10y ago

When the the practical implementation of a law does not align with the meaning of the words in the law, we all lose.

This is doubly so with a proposed law, where the implementation can easily change to reflect what the words do mean.

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