The 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

The 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.