3 ms·
I know at least a few people on HN are copyright maximalists, so I hesitate to mention things like this by name in mixed company.
by mcpackieh 3y ago
I know at least a few people on HN are copyright maximalists, so I hesitate to mention things like this by name in mixed company.
- sh34r 3y agoThere's at least a few people on HN who hold every possible belief you can enumerate. There's Kopimists and patent trolls. There's people who believe microdosing LSD makes them more productive, that we live in a simulation, that LLMs are sentient, that UAPs are interdimensional entities that live under the ocean, that Nickelback makes good music, that bananas belong on pizza. I do not understand why you'd self-censor on this basis alone.
- mcpackieh 3y agoIt just seemed a little imprudent to tempt fate I guess.
- kmeisthax 3y agoThe fact that there are even copyright maximalists on HN boggles the mind. Go back two decades and the prevailing opinion in every tech space was that we should declare open season on any creative who makes money from copyright licensing. I get that HN is run by VC people and their business model specifically relies on monopolization, but... I mean, come on. They can't actually believe that their actions are prosocial or even beneficial to the consumer, can they? I don't mean the basic idea of there being a copyright system, but the specific situation that we have where everything owned by someone else and customers have to permanently rent out their own culture. You've either deluded yourself into thinking that the international copyright bargain set up in the 1970s is still somehow the best possible option in 2023, or you're a cartoon supervillain called "Fuck You, Pay Me" Man.