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Physical slavery was once the law of the land too. I like to think I would have been on the right side of history at that time, as well.
by breck 4y ago
Physical slavery was once the law of the land too. I like to think I would have been on the right side of history at that time, as well.
- jacquesm 4y agoYou are simply not making much sense, and to compare physical slavery with copyright is ridiculous.
- bastardoperator 4y agoIt made perfect sense. Laws change all the time... in some cases they're invalidated by the court.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> Laws change all the time That still doesn't make breck right. If I say "slave ownership can't be signed over by a ToS change" that's a true statement, despite me being anti-slavery. Copyright could be many things. But that doesn't change what copyright is right now. And even if they are offensive, they don't "void logic".
- breck 4y ago> and to compare physical slavery with copyright is ridiculous. On the contrary, you cannot mathematically distinguish (c)opywrong laws as anything but a kind of slavery. Define a person A as a slave to person B if person B has legal control over person A at all times. Now imagine person A is hanging out with Person C. With (c)opywrong laws, Person B has legal control over a subset of person A's behavior in this scenario (they are forbidden from sharing certain files with Person C by Person B). Hence, Person A is a partial slave to Person B. It is not metaphor, it is literally a subset of the same thing. Intellectual Slavery is just slavery from many masters.