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"The African economy will start booming once they get UNLIMITED access to those 1800s manuals on measuring the Ether and where the best seal clubbing sites are

• sircastor 4y ago
  This is like saying tribal knowledge is useless, or internet access is useless. Books are useless only if they’re inaccessible. The point you’re trying to make (I think) is that information isn’t particularly useful on its own. True. It has to be relevant. With good, useful information you still need community support (whether that’s your household or your country), funding, time, etc. But that’s going to be the case whether you’re using a book or learning from a forum, or a video. Internet videos are worthless if you have no internet. Tribal knowledge is useless if no one can get the information from the previous generation. The medium is not the problem, and suggesting that relevancy is a fault of the medium is a misrepresentation.
• approxim8ion 4y ago
  then maybe we stop letting people push the copyright periods tentatively so more relevant things come into the public domain as well. this is a nothing argument.
  • dredmorbius 4y ago
    There's a compelling argument that Germany's lax attitudes toward copyright in the 19th century helped propell that nation[1] to a dominant position in science and technology. Germany now is a leading copyright-maximalist power, unfortunately. ________________________________ Notes: 1. I say nation and not country as the German language and cultural nationality pre-existed the German state in 1871.