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thundara · 4671 days ago · link · · parent · post: The US has passed 15 expansions of copyright law in the past 30 years
1997: No Electronic Theft (NET) Act: Decreased the threshold for what counts as criminal infringement (such as taking out the monetary profit requirement).
Wow, I never knew that it was ever not the case that monetary profit mattered. The first online music stores plus napster only came about years later, so I wonder what prompted it.