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Why do we always defer to these copyright mongers? They're so absurd. Ah yes, preventing the listening of "Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Bert Ambrose &

Why do we always defer to these copyright mongers? They're so absurd. Ah yes, preventing the listening of "Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Bert Ambrose & his Orchestra is a pressing national priority. Oh, the national economy will collapse if someone can hear "I Lift Up My Finger & I Say Tweet Tweet" by Stanley Lupino. I found their "sacred rights" implausible when the RIAA was hauling grannies into prison 20 years ago or suing babies and dead people and I'm still not convinced today. Why do we have to continue to put up with this crap? It's like the SCO/Linux bullshit but it never ended. I really wish things were less insane. This is so stupid. There needs to be attorney crowd funding so the 99% can have legal representation and not continue to get trampled by these lunatic clowns

TheCleric 3y ago
> Oh, the national economy will collapse if someone can hear "I Lift Up My Finger & I Say Tweet Tweet" by Stanley Lupino. Elon will just sue to force them to rename it "I Lift Up My Finger & I Say X X"
- visarga 3y ago
  By the way, can I also trademark the letter "I"? Everyone using "I" will have to get my approval first. Everyone who wants to own a letter should hurry, they are just a few left.
Tao3300 3y ago
I blame Metallica. Particularly Lars. I don't know if he's more or less responsible than any of the other guys in the band, but in my heart he's the source of the enshittifying evil. The derelict that brought the xenomorph. The meteor that brought the color out of space. The cow with prion disease.
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tacocataco 3y ago
"They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?” And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’ Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15
- kristopolous 3y ago
  1. Find a Commons 2. Enclose it 3. Convert it to a capitalist mode of production 4. Exit as the exploitation leads to a hollow core and the profit declines 5. Repeat

TheCleric 3y ago

> Oh, the national economy will collapse if someone can hear "I Lift Up My Finger & I Say Tweet Tweet" by Stanley Lupino. Elon will just sue to force them to rename it "I Lift Up My Finger & I Say X X"

visarga 3y ago
By the way, can I also trademark the letter "I"? Everyone using "I" will have to get my approval first. Everyone who wants to own a letter should hurry, they are just a few left.

Tao3300 3y ago

I blame Metallica. Particularly Lars. I don't know if he's more or less responsible than any of the other guys in the band, but in my heart he's the source of the enshittifying evil. The derelict that brought the xenomorph. The meteor that brought the color out of space. The cow with prion disease.

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tacocataco 3y ago

"They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?” And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’ Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15

kristopolous 3y ago
1. Find a Commons 2. Enclose it 3. Convert it to a capitalist mode of production 4. Exit as the exploitation leads to a hollow core and the profit declines 5. Repeat