@david_megginson I want a world where artists and authors don't starve, and that's the exact opposite of the world of copyright (where corporations can lay claim to the works of others while censoring new works).
We need UBI or better direct financing methods (though Patreon helps), not a tool of abusive publishers, record labels, and studios.
@david_megginson 0 years. Copyright is regularly used by cops to censor police violence incidents, by abusive exes to continue abuse, and exists primarily to prevent non corporations from creating new works.
It doesn't finance new works, just look at the clusterfuck that is modern movie making and all the free labor script writers are forced to do because only the Studios (IP owners) are allowed to create culture.
Dipshits: Capitalism is decentralized, and IP is required for capitalism, so thus state run censorship of billions is decentralized somehow.
How the fuck does someone get so stupid?
Dipshit: Also not having IP is literally slavery.
It's like prison labor is right there, actually cohesive labor and you just ignore it.
But without #copyright, how will we hand disproportionate power to folks like #JefferyEpstein?
It's not censorship bro, it's copyright, bro, you just can't buy or distribute it or copy it or talk about it, very different from censorship bro.
Two songs from different artists 50 years apart. One is suing the other for copyright infringement. There are only so many ways to arrange 8 notes. This is the sort of thing that destroys the creativity that #copyright claims to be encouraging. #copyrightIsTheft #IP #intelectualProperty
In related news, the US DoJ and FBI have arrested the operators of ZLibrary in Argentina.
#Copyright #Crime #ZLibrary #CopyrightIsTheft #CopyrightIsBrainDamage
Carmen Ortiz has Blood on Her Hands
... Despite its short-lived existence on the internet and the fact that I was much more obscure at that time, people still ask me about this piece from time to time, especially in the last year, since it is the ten-year anniversary of Swartz’s death. Until today, I thought the piece was gone, seeing as it was snatched off the web very quickly and I don’t even know the URL where it would have been anyways....
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/12/13/carmen-ortiz-has-blood-on-her-hands/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573357
#CarmenOrtiz #AaronSwartz #OpenAccess #MIT #JSTOR #ProsecutorialMisconduct #ProsecutorialOverreach #Ethics #CopyrightIsTheft
@cypnk Bahaha! We at the Church know the pain of existence and offer respite in the shade of #Slack!
Only $35 and you get salvation! Praise J.R. "Bob" Dobbs!
But really... #copyrightistheft 
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