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We've been robbed of the public domain - pirate everything with a clear conscience.
Yeah, it's currently Life of Creator + 70 years, which is fucking ridiculous
Has any software ever entered the public domain through copyright expiration? I think software at least 70 years old (125 years for corporate created) when its copyright expires prevents it from being any benefit at all.
Worse, unless you have the source code to that 70 year old software it's probably even less useful.