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It is hypocrisy.

We can safely assume a big fat newspaper wants there to be copyright laws. In which case they should obey those laws.

The universal application of a rule -- i.e. fairness -- is probably the single most important principle of morality. One would think most normative theories of ethics, across history and culture, are centered on some form of it.




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