I am not fully sure how I feel about it yet:
* https://malus.sh/
* https://malus.sh/blog
There are a ton of good points, and they're all well reasoned and all fully accurate and correct as far as I understand. I am not sure about the "solution" though. I think it's fair to say this is a brave move, while it's not mind blowing but I never thought someone would really attempt to do it. If it's not well written, I would expect this to be a joke, not something serious. Thought provoking.
I honestly admire the honesty here. In some ways it reads like an honest theft, but it's not. It's indeed how copyright works and thus far how it should work. It is true that things have changed and the economy is much different today. Following it it's a nature evolution indeed. This can mean copyright requires some changes, too, as everyone is updating the copyright law in the era of AI. This is no different from that.
It's legal right now. It should be in the foreseen future. But how far?
@godfat as per the hackernews page on it (and convos that i saw elsewhere), that blog is satire. makes sense, given that most of the times as a company you can do whatever and get away with it (the large majority of businesses being shadow b2b middlemen enterprises that 99% of people dont think about ever)
that said, i dont trust "honesty" from marketers. the best conman makes you to think they're putting all their cards on the table.
@draconacht Yeah links are fake so it's not real. That makes sense.
As for trust, I think that's too heavy to put it. Always be skeptical. However I still believe we should encourage people to be honest. It's not black and white after all. You can call that being good or convincing, too. Just don't make it look like having obvious lies are ok even when it's common.
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