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You can go ahead but the history of the last 200 years suggest reformism doesn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:T
by stuu99 5y ago
You can go ahead but the history of the last 200 years suggest reformism doesn't work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Tom_Bell's_graph_showing_extension_of_U.S._copyright_term_over_time.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
Corporations got their way every time over the last 200 years. There has never been a time where copyright was pared back in the public interest.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoIn the UK we got format shifting rights for a year or so, that was a minor, temporary paring back!
- brigandish 5y agoUntil the alternative given is not dump capitalism then reformism is the only option I'll be backing, as the least worst of a sorry bunch.