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Conflating copyright with technical inability to use a thing (game servers shutting down) highly conflates the situation, in my view. Traditionally, citizens &
by rektide 4y ago
Conflating copyright with technical inability to use a thing (game servers shutting down) highly conflates the situation, in my view.
Traditionally, citizens & non-citizens have the ability to ignore & shirk copyright to a high degree. It's a new infernal shit show that now it's no longer just a legal protection that loosely defends corporate rights to media, but technological protection too.
It's as if France can go make photos of the Eiffel tower self destruct, and it's incredibly fallen. Often what we can do isn't regulated under copyright at all- under DRM, every useless cad company gets to make up its own new rights regime, fast worse than any copyright system, where invariably they have all rights & own everything & can change the agreement whenever & however they like in any way that suits them.
Conflating the DRM technological dominionizing with copyright- as you do again and again- ascribes & conflates a despicable monstrous abyssal major horror to a merely somewhat damned existing minor infernalism.
- RHSeeger 4y ago> Conflating the DRM technological dominionizing with copyright- as you do again and again- Come again? - The first one is flat out copyright - The second one is debatable, because it depends on the how.. but I'll give you that one - The third one is, I thought, copyright... you're not allowed to take pictures of the Eiffel tower at night because the lighting for it is copyrighted. - The third one is copyright (copying a piece of software that can no longer be purchased)