HaileySep 4, 2024
The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
Show threadArne Brasseur

@hailey I was just reading this this morning which seems timely

“I am of the firm belief that we are hitting a watershed where economics and morality are coming to a head, like, ‘Look: intellectual property law is based off some ideas that came out of 1400s Venice. They’re not applicable and they’re being abused and people are dying every day because of it, and it’s not OK,’”

https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.

404 Media
Sep 5, 2024 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadRiley S. FaelanSep 7, 2024

@plexus In English-speaking world, 1700s' London. You know, the kind of world where the queen would want to deny any publisher the right to copy a book that the queen didn't like, but when codifying it, she tacked on a wee bit of le droit d'auteur kind of stuff to reduce the Parliament's push-back.

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