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I'm not sure the situation calls for such diplomatic language. You are fucking with this company's fief. There, that's what's really going on. They feel entit

by cmurf 3y ago

I'm not sure the situation calls for such diplomatic language. You are fucking with this company's fief. There, that's what's really going on. They feel entitled to earning money and are pissed they need any customers at all to get it. Public libraries are now paying more money per use for licensing fees than an individual would pay. Libraries are pretty much looking into the abyss, no more permanent copies of anything. All books a rented, they all have usage limits, typically some combination of date of expiration as well as number of checkouts - they the library must pay for another license. It's beyond absurd. I'm not at all sympathetic to this business model. Meanwhile author percentages have gone down. Digital is dramatically worse, except for the fief holders.

flybrand 3y ago
Yes, this is the right issue - it's their fief. They're farming money off the students. Don't mess with the crop, even if you are the crop.
- newsclues 3y ago
  Is this the sort of sustainable business that our governments are encouraging?
stereolambda 3y ago
I do not think this is much of a metaphor, even. The whole paralegal system built around so-called intellectual property is conceptually analogous to the feudal system of banalités, private tolls, guild privileges and monopolies etc. abolished in the early days of the French Revolution. In the sense that it is a set of privileges invented, granted and enforced by the central state power to some private parties, allowing the latter to directly extract rent from the public. By the way various feudal privileges were fascinating by the way in how Byzantine and random they were, of course from the modern perspective. At the end even the nobles supporting the Enlightenment were for ending them: some say also because they saw more money in free(r?) enterprise. I kind of doubt we'll live to see similar sentiment in copyright robber barons.

by cmurf 3y ago

flybrand 3y ago

Yes, this is the right issue - it's their fief. They're farming money off the students. Don't mess with the crop, even if you are the crop.

newsclues 3y ago
Is this the sort of sustainable business that our governments are encouraging?

stereolambda 3y ago

I do not think this is much of a metaphor, even. The whole paralegal system built around so-called intellectual property is conceptually analogous to the feudal system of banalités, private tolls, guild privileges and monopolies etc. abolished in the early days of the French Revolution. In the sense that it is a set of privileges invented, granted and enforced by the central state power to some private parties, allowing the latter to directly extract rent from the public. By the way various feudal privileges were fascinating by the way in how Byzantine and random they were, of course from the modern perspective. At the end even the nobles supporting the Enlightenment were for ending them: some say also because they saw more money in free(r?) enterprise. I kind of doubt we'll live to see similar sentiment in copyright robber barons.