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> To actually enforce copyright in the 21st century, there must be no software freedom. It's also trivial to stab someone. Not all crimes can or should be prev
by knorker 5y ago
> To actually enforce copyright in the 21st century, there must be no software freedom.
It's also trivial to stab someone. Not all crimes can or should be prevented by technical means.
In fact most cannot even in principle be prevented. Most of law depends on detection, not prevention.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoWithout technology, copyright is unenforceable. It might as well not even exist. Piracy has proven that.
- knorker 5y agoYou should read up on the history of copyright.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI have. To infringe copyright at scale in the old world, you needed industrial hardware like printing presses. Centralized operations of significant size. Easy target for litigation. Now nearly everyone on this planet has a pocket computer capable of creating and transmitting unlimited numbers of any piece of data at practically zero cost. People don't even realize they're doing it, it's so natural. They create truckloads of derivative works of copyrighted material every single day in the form of memes.
- knorker 5y agoOk, so littering should be legal, too? Running a red light? And yellow light?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoNo?
- knorker 5y agoSo... ? It's easy to litter, and by FAR most people get away with it. It's easy to infringe copyright, and by FAR most people get away with it. Yet you feel this is justification to remove copyright laws, but not littering laws.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoLittering and running red lights causes problems for everyone in society. Copyright infringement... doesn't. It's mostly just a small dip in the expected profits of a monopolist.
- knorker 5y agoIf you litter on a street I'm not on, then it doesn't affect me. If nobody will ever get paid for intellectual property again, then it will absolutely affect me. It's the end of a whole category of creation, and a huge net reduction.
- type0 5y ago> Most of law depends on detection, not prevention. That's where the "there must be no software freedom" is exactly what might be mandated. It's trivial to re-purpose Apple CSAM mechanism to do this "detection" and something that might actually happen in the future.