ShadowZoneFeb 23
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Feb 22 at 8:00pmTypefully
Show threadPete OrrallFeb 25
@eff Buying a track or ebook you can't pass on only encourages #piracy.
Show threadYet another Josh Feb 25

@peteorrall @eff

If buying isnt owning, then pirating isnt theft.

Show threadPete OrrallFeb 25
@crankylinuxuser @eff You can pirate rented material, ie make unauthorized copies for oneself and/or others.
Show threadYet another Josh Feb 25

@peteorrall @eff

Yes. And?

And you can set up the following:

Jellyfin (videos)
Navidrome (music)
Audiobookshelf (audiobooks)
Paperless (academic books and papers)
Booklore (fiction and comic)
Romm (console games)

Show threadStarlineMar 5

@eff

In my humble opinion — coppyright, in its current form, must die.
I have many quams with coppyright, but my main ones are this:
- I think that, as long as you do it for free, you shouldnt have restrictions on file shareing (i.e. "everyone can share, only author can sell/profit").
- If any data is sold with hardware (f.e. firmware, OS) it should have same protections as a patent (i.e. no ELUA may apply)
- Inthink that coppyright protection should be slashed to 25 years (same as patent).