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copyright infringement doesn't exist in the same form everywhere, I don't think a phone should have a single monopolized app store just to prevent US based copy
by slikrick 4y ago
copyright infringement doesn't exist in the same form everywhere, I don't think a phone should have a single monopolized app store just to prevent US based copyright infringement.
- tinus_hn 4y agoIn other news, the DMCA type rules do not apply to the whole internet and the Berne convention is just a fiction that stands in the way of the glorious EU forcing Apple to open their App Store.
- smoldesu 4y agoThe free transmission of information should usually triumph over the enforcement of intellectual property. It's a symbol of a healthy democracy, in my opinion.
- tinus_hn 4y agoIf you want to argue the abolition of copyright that’s fine but it’s revolutionary and not the subject of this thread.
- smoldesu 4y agoCopyright (and Copyleft) is a societal concept, not a technical one. In the technical world, there is only copying. If someone tries to limit your ability to copy data by using a societal concept as an excuse, they are directly censoring the content you interact with. That's not just democratically harmful, it's a bad omen for the market. It's so anti-revolutionary that currently-sitting administrations in America and Europe agree that Apple is deserving of anticompetitive inquiry.
- tinus_hn 4y agoA not very interesting philosophical essay that is rehashing arguments everyone has seen a million times and is not about the subject of this thread.