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Since you've reverted to old habits, started a hellish flamewar, and did more than anyone else to perpetuate it, I've re-banned your account.

This is absolutely not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for. Not cool.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30355394.

A creditor's right to cash overrides a person's right to see?

I'm reminded of the movie Repo Men.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/plotsummary

I have a question since you mention this movie -- was there an 80s/90s "precursor" for it with a big actor from that time? I know that Repo Man is not it, but maybe it hides under a different name. (Alternatively, it is a false memory.)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/

(Also check out https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/)

What's nightmarish about it?

> Call it the Capitalism to communism bendover transfer act.

Are you this against the concept of the public domain in general?

And do you disagree with the stated purpose of IP in the constitution?

Less of a nightmare than the concept of private ownership of ideas in the first place.