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It's a good thing that there is no equivalent of this in the information age. A digital copy is just as good as any original.
by return0 10y ago
It's a good thing that there is no equivalent of this in the information age. A digital copy is just as good as any original.
- pjc50 10y agoAuthenticity just means something slightly different. What about "fake news"? What about phishing sites? Isn't the reddit/spez controversy entirely about authenticity and attribution?
- csydas 10y agoI appreciate the idea here, but it's really not what the article is discussing. The article is talking about items only previously obtainable via harvesting naturally occurring items, for example, diamonds. Then suddenly because some smart people worked on it for a bit, we had lab made diamonds. Or how purple dye used to be a challenge. Despite the prevalence and usefulness of artifical otions for many formerly naturally occurring items, there are still huge pushes and even social stigmas for not having "authentic" versions of these materials. I understand how you're making the comparison here, but you're conflating the topics. This isn't about verifying authenticity in the case of the materials, it's whether or not a diamond made in the ground is intrinsically worth more than one made in a lab, and why so many people feel better about the one from out of the ground.
- yk 10y agoSee also astroturf campaigns. However in some sense all of these examples are about deception (in some real or imagined sense). On second thought, the natural/artificial dichotomy in diamonds, food &c. is indeed very similar, it is about deception of getting a product that conforms to some ideal of natural. Compare the situation between food and tires, nobody would complain about non-organic tires, I wouldn't be surprised if most people demand non-organic tires even if there would be a plant based substitute. In food it is just the exact opposite.
- return0 10y agothats not related
- icebraining 10y agoNot yet, anyway: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2834 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2834
- brudgers 10y agoYour comment reminded me of this: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 There seems to be some nexus between claims of originality/authenticity and DRM.
- segmondy 10y agoThere is. First posts, high user id's on web forums, what's your slashdot ID? karma scores on HN or reddit, number of followers on social media. Some of these are hard to fake, some are not. Just 2 days ago, I saw a "stolen tweet", someone in another country took a funny tweet from someone else in a different country, changed the details to match his locale and got lots of likes. We see this in reddit, where people are called out for reposts and posting as if it was their own experience. What is real, what is fake?
- ominous 10y agoAnd the last question, "does it matter?"