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Colour me skeptical. The USA pioneered such abusive innovations as perpetual copyright, pervasive hardware-level DRM and rootkits, and surveillance capitalism.
by selfhoster11 6y ago
Colour me skeptical. The USA pioneered such abusive innovations as perpetual copyright, pervasive hardware-level DRM and rootkits, and surveillance capitalism. I can't see protections against something as powerful as facial recognition coming from a society that didn't oppose similarly abusive tech.
- tzs 6y ago> The USA pioneered such abusive innovations as perpetual copyright The US change from a fixed 28 year term that could be renewed once to a life of author + 50 years term was done to match the minimum term allowed under the Berne Convention, which most of the world had already done decades before. In 1998 the US lengthened the term again, to life + 70 years. That one was to match Europe, which had made that change in 1993.
- anticristi 6y agoI like the popular myth more: Copyright in the US is prolonged as required to keep Mickey mouse away from the public domain. :)