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- "There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, w
by perihelions 3y ago
- "There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger."
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html ("The Right to Read" (1997))
It was a very short time ago when ideas in this concept-space were, like, "this is colorfully paranoid nonsense and RMS needs to cut back on the acid", and not, like, "well obviously governments are going to do something like this, that's expected and normal".
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- pixl97 3y agoThe entire AI thing has lead to creators going full Right to Read mode recently asking for insane levels of copyright protection, which had they been under, would likely have had issues with their own stories. Too many people want a locked down future and it's scary.
- Ferret7446 3y agoPeople will always prioritize their own interests. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." This is going to be invective, but creators who feel insecure are naturally going to lash out against anything that they perceive to affect their income and/or reputation/image. Great creators, great creations benefit from open sharing, per Gabe Newell's well-known quote. There will always be piracy, but that doesn't impact the creator because people who like a work want to support the creator if they can afford to. Fear of piracy comes from insecure creators, and that insecurity comes from the lack of skill or perceived lack of skill. To put it bluntly, content creation is extremely oversaturated and most people don't create things that justify their price. I wish they could do what they love and not worry about sustaining themselves, but economic reality is economic reality.
- boppo1 3y ago>Gabe Newell's well-known quote I don't know it. >economic reality is economic reality. Not if the FOMC had anything to say about it since '08. And they did.
- CatWChainsaw 3y ago"Piracy is a service issue, not a price issue."
- yakubin 3y ago> There will always be piracy, but that doesn't impact the creator because people who like a work want to support the creator if they can afford to. Fear of piracy comes from insecure creators, and that insecurity comes from the lack of skill or perceived lack of skill. That leads to a reality where creators earn money from charity based on celebrity status, instead of from a trade of goods. A reality where every creator needs to be a celebrity to make ends meet is a horrifying one.
- Viliam1234 3y agoIf you have too many creators, something will filter them out. It could be celebrity status. It could be marketing skills. It could be something else. But either way, it will be something... and the people who have a problem passing that filter will complain that it is unfair. > A reality where every creator needs to be a celebrity to make ends meet is a horrifying one. More horrifying than a reality where every creator needs business skills to make ends meet?
- yakubin 3y agoCurrently you can be an anonymous creator and sell your stuff in various places. You can also be a celebrity and live from a mix of Patreon and social media. The suggestion to allow free sharing of everything would remove the first model. I’d prefer the first model to stay viable. And being a celebrity also involves business skills. You’re just selling yourself instead of things.
- pkkm 3y ago"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: Stallman was right again."
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoI’m impressed at RMS’s creativity in depicting the dystopian society that we want to prevent, while at the same time failing to depict the utopian society that we want.
- mcv 3y agoIs that not generally the case for all dystopia writers? How many utopias did Orwell write? I think the consensus among fiction writers is that attemps to create a utopia will always become a dystopia.