• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    K, versus 2,750,000 years.

    Here’s 300 letter g’s:

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    Here’s 2.75 million letter h’s

    
    

    Oh wait, I can’t paste that many because at 40 chars per line, it would be 68,000 lines long, or 1000x the Android clipboard’s char limit.

    You are literally describing a meaningless iota in the course of human history.

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      I don’t get your argument. So because it’s “new” according to your grand cosmic scale, it doesn’t exist at all?

      You can say “I think intellectual property is a dumb idea” and I’d love to hear your arguments for that, but to act like it isn’t real just because we came up with the idea relatively recently, is just asinine.

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        13 hours ago

        ,You can say “I think intellectual property is a dumb idea” and I’d love to hear your arguments for that,

        Read the above comments then.

        but to act like it isn’t real just because we came up with the idea relatively recently, is just asinine.

        Again, read my comments. I didn’t say it wasn’t real, I said it has no basis in human culture or history.

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          I said it has no basis in human culture or history.

          Not only is this incorrect, it would be meaningless even if it was accurate. What point are you even trying to make with this claim?

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            It is 100% correct. There was no concept of owning a story or a song just because you told it first, throughout literally all of history until the copyright laws of the 20th century.

            And my point is that the literal entirety of human culture is based on a tradition of storytelling, something copyright expressly forbids.

            Copyright is not a system that aligns with our natural inclinations or the way we evolved. It’s a crude, child like attempt to cram information into a capitalist mold that doesn’t work.

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              There was no concept of owning a story or a song just because you told it first, throughout literally all of history until the copyright laws of the 20th century.

              Brother, copyright has been around since at least the 1700s, you’re literally just making things up right now. Read a book.