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This guy is a hero. What he did should not be a crime. It's time for a Freedom to Publish Amendment: Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Co

by breck 4y ago

This guy is a hero. What he did should not be a crime. It's time for a Freedom to Publish Amendment: Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed. Section 2. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to publish or implement ideas.

paulmd 4y ago
I've been on board the "patents need to be repealed or significantly toned down" train too, but, the legitimate counter-argument that I see is that it's going to lead to a rise in "corporate secrets" style stuff. If they can't legally stop people from republishing IP, then they'll make it hard. Denuvo, other DRM, or just go to fully streaming-only for the first year or two after launch. Want to play Battlefield 6, subscribe to PS Now. And this will likely hit PCs harder than consoles since de facto there have been near-zero hypervisor breaks of any relevance in consoles since the PS4/XB1 era, everything is signed and encrypted and TPM'd to death. AMD's SVP for datacenter and embedded has talked about how their Secure Encrypted Virtualization and other security features are actually coming from work on consoles, to the datacenter market these days. And now there's Pluton coming up too (although apparently there have been some serious breaches in TPM 2.0 very recently that may ruin a lot of the pluton work as well, we can look forward to windows 12 I guess!). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-sev-xbox-cryptographic-isolation,40274.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-sev-xbox-cryptographic... So far, the EU hasn't been willing to apply their rulemaking on iphones to video game consoles yet, and tbh that is a far more noxious case of "you don't own the hardware". And that's what PCs might turn into if IP law vanishes, the practical security measures would ramp up to compensate. And no, consoles aren't being sold at a significant loss in the way people think they are. PS5 is sold at a profit, Xbox Series consoles might be sold at break even or a small loss, or it could just be hollywood accounting for the purposes of making a legal argument at the trial to get apple's ecosystem broken open. They had a financial interest in being able to argue that the ruling shouldn't apply to them and that their equally-locked-down app stores shouldn't be subject to competition or user freedom in general. https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns-a-profit-on-499-ps5 https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...
- breck 4y ago
  > If they can't legally stop people from republishing IP, then they'll make it hard. Alternatively it changes the game on how things are built. Building in public becomes the default, lowering the cost for all. You'd expect a short term variance (downward) while the system adjusts, but in the long run it'd be much cheaper to produce great works, since your material costs will be lower (no royalties) and you wouldn't burn resources on the security and bureaucratic hoops you have to go through today to build and integrate ideas. Monopoly profits would be finished though. So yes, <1% of the population would arguably be worse off. (I'm in that group, btw).
  - paulmd 4y ago
    I think the "building in public" approach has been a failure though. Unreal Tournament didn't work. Crowdfunding can work, but I think people probably are leery of that for larger projects or studios without a track record of success. And with a project like Unreal Tournament you're not going to get the flood of hat money and other MTX bullshit that currently feeds studios. Even if you want to pay for a game pass, I can just give myself the game pass on my own local copy, and get all the same stuff right? I'm not entirely saying that (Jim Sterling voice) "triple-A gaming" dying is the worst thing in the world mind you, but, we'd be talking about some really tectonic shifts in how things get built and I think the pot of addressable money is really a lot smaller. Hopefully it would lead to more passion projects and not just the death of the industry. Like I said I think patents have been a scourge, but copyright in the sense of owning the thing you wrote, is less problematic. Derivative works are the problem case that I've previously talked about though since I think humans go through our world deriving and remixing everything we see and touch and that's not a bad thing. And AI is going to make all of this very problematic in not-very-many years either, 5-10 years and AIs will be writing great software and making great creative works without significant human intervention. Once we move past capitalism as a concept, then yes, by all means these things can go away too ;)

by breck 4y ago

paulmd 4y ago

I've been on board the "patents need to be repealed or significantly toned down" train too, but, the legitimate counter-argument that I see is that it's going to lead to a rise in "corporate secrets" style stuff. If they can't legally stop people from republishing IP, then they'll make it hard. Denuvo, other DRM, or just go to fully streaming-only for the first year or two after launch. Want to play Battlefield 6, subscribe to PS Now. And this will likely hit PCs harder than consoles since de facto there have been near-zero hypervisor breaks of any relevance in consoles since the PS4/XB1 era, everything is signed and encrypted and TPM'd to death. AMD's SVP for datacenter and embedded has talked about how their Secure Encrypted Virtualization and other security features are actually coming from work on consoles, to the datacenter market these days. And now there's Pluton coming up too (although apparently there have been some serious breaches in TPM 2.0 very recently that may ruin a lot of the pluton work as well, we can look forward to windows 12 I guess!). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-sev-xbox-cryptographic-isolation,40274.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-sev-xbox-cryptographic... So far, the EU hasn't been willing to apply their rulemaking on iphones to video game consoles yet, and tbh that is a far more noxious case of "you don't own the hardware". And that's what PCs might turn into if IP law vanishes, the practical security measures would ramp up to compensate. And no, consoles aren't being sold at a significant loss in the way people think they are. PS5 is sold at a profit, Xbox Series consoles might be sold at break even or a small loss, or it could just be hollywood accounting for the purposes of making a legal argument at the trial to get apple's ecosystem broken open. They had a financial interest in being able to argue that the ruling shouldn't apply to them and that their equally-locked-down app stores shouldn't be subject to competition or user freedom in general. https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns-a-profit-on-499-ps5 https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...

breck 4y ago
> If they can't legally stop people from republishing IP, then they'll make it hard. Alternatively it changes the game on how things are built. Building in public becomes the default, lowering the cost for all. You'd expect a short term variance (downward) while the system adjusts, but in the long run it'd be much cheaper to produce great works, since your material costs will be lower (no royalties) and you wouldn't burn resources on the security and bureaucratic hoops you have to go through today to build and integrate ideas. Monopoly profits would be finished though. So yes, <1% of the population would arguably be worse off. (I'm in that group, btw).
- paulmd 4y ago
  I think the "building in public" approach has been a failure though. Unreal Tournament didn't work. Crowdfunding can work, but I think people probably are leery of that for larger projects or studios without a track record of success. And with a project like Unreal Tournament you're not going to get the flood of hat money and other MTX bullshit that currently feeds studios. Even if you want to pay for a game pass, I can just give myself the game pass on my own local copy, and get all the same stuff right? I'm not entirely saying that (Jim Sterling voice) "triple-A gaming" dying is the worst thing in the world mind you, but, we'd be talking about some really tectonic shifts in how things get built and I think the pot of addressable money is really a lot smaller. Hopefully it would lead to more passion projects and not just the death of the industry. Like I said I think patents have been a scourge, but copyright in the sense of owning the thing you wrote, is less problematic. Derivative works are the problem case that I've previously talked about though since I think humans go through our world deriving and remixing everything we see and touch and that's not a bad thing. And AI is going to make all of this very problematic in not-very-many years either, 5-10 years and AIs will be writing great software and making great creative works without significant human intervention. Once we move past capitalism as a concept, then yes, by all means these things can go away too ;)