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There's two sides to that argument. On one hand you're correct and the data is more accessible to anyone who wants to pull it. On the other hand, you don't need to sign a ToS agreement with stackexchange to use it and therefore it's still yours and not theirs because you never clicked anything giving it to them.

Technically this isn't really true. By creating the content you retain the copyright to it even if you make it available. That's why in the TOs of the big tech companies they either assign themselves the copyright to your work or assign themselves and unlimited license to use your work.

All that being said, you are still absolutely correct. If I were to for example post the full PDF of the graysonian ethic, and people are going to download it and it is in fact if not in law me saying it's okay to take, and that thing that I downloaded for free I'm going to treat as if I can just hand it to whoever even though technically that's not really the case.

I seem to recall there were a few game companies that released copies of old games for free and said that those free copies of the games were not being released is freeware and they were still under copyright and yada yada yada, but come on -- if you downloaded a copy of GTA and GTA 2 off of the Rockstar website, you're not going to shed any tears giving a few copies to your buddies for some multiplayer.