3 ms·
You should read up on the history of copyright.
by knorker 5y ago
You 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.