Should Harriet Tubman have petitioned her local city council and waited for a referendum before freeing slaves?

Time will tell if comparing slavery to copyright is ridiculous or not.

In the case of slavery - we changed the law.

In the case of copyright - it's older than the Atlantic Slave Trade and still alive and kicking.

It's almost as if one of them is not like the other.

> It's almost as if one of them is not like the other.

Use this newfound insight to take my comment in good faith, as per HN guidelines, and recognize that I am making a generalized analogy about the gap between law and ethics, and not making a direct comparison between copyright and slavery.

Can we get back on topic?