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Copyright is useful for when you’re protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It’s actually the original intent for why it exists in the first place. The problem is that it’s rarely used that way and is instead used by big corporations as a battering ram to extract as much wealth as possible from the ones below them.
(…) protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It’s actually the original intent for why it exists.
Let me discern with you with this. Copyright actually started as a way for censorship, control and profit.
History of Copyright https://falkvinge.net/2011/02/01/history-of-copyright-part-1-black-death/
Also, trial fees are usually unaffordable for smaller business or citizens in most of the world. Corporations employ different strategies when using “someone else’s intellectual property” to avoid problems or persue their suers, and usually get away with it.
Piracy is for Trillion Dollar Companies | Gamer Nexus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtBgB7iS8c
Copyright is not valid, it is an unjustified form of tyrannical control. Piracy is pushing back against something that isn’t acceptable or justified by refusing to play by their rules.
Anyone who voluntarily supports or apologizes for copyright is neoliberal dirt to me.
Companies want to squeeze us for maximum value while providing minimal effort. So they get what they give; they should be competing with “free” but would much rather fruitlessly put up roadblocks that only hurt paying customers, leading more people to piracy. Its delicious and theres nothing they can do to stop it.
I know this sounds like a very stretched analogy at first glance, but it’s like a baker trying to prosecute people for smelling their products from outside. But if you think about it, these media companies are literally sending their information out into the air and getting upset when people just listen to that information. Like a smell, internet data is just out there in the air and it’s just unreasonable to prosecute people for either smelling or downloading stuff that’s permeating the atmosphere. Maybe tape recording radio songs is a tighter analogy but it’s the same idea.
Piracy is a correcting action on a massive market distortion. It’s a state enforced monopoly on any given idea. You know what other ideology liked state enforced monopolies? Communism.
Copyright laws are the perfect example on how our economic system is flawed. How can you pretend to get money on the abstract concept of someone copying some bites on their computer.
Practicing piracy shows the way for a better system.
Each time I torrent I murmur “This is the way”.
Got another option:
Copos had a chance to stop piracy. Netflix demonstrated that. A full all-you-can-watch buffet for €10 a month with everything you need available caused piracy to all but disappear.
Then they got greedy.
Piracy is just as much of a natural result of asshole pricing and market fragmentation as unionization and strikes are a natural result of employers being assholes and underpaying.
I’m in between 3 and 4: both copyright and copying are amoral (they are just tools), but copyright as it exists today is obsolete, arguably to the point that it actively hinders the betterment of humankind.
In ancient Greece, everyone told stories about Achilles and Odysseus and Perseus.
Now we watch stories about Iron Man and Superman and the Jedi.
The difference is, back then stories belonged to everyone. Now stories belong to billionaires.
A good take.
I wish piracy was stealing, because stealing from the rich is good
Piracy is good, actually.
Come back when games become 1) strictly drm-free no launchers no nothing 2) more affordable worldwide 3) not subject to artificial obsolescence, then we can talk.
Somewhere in between the bottom two.
If I didn’t get into so many niche genres of music through piracy in the 00s, I’d not have a vinyl collection worth the same as a lower end luxury car today.
