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It's actually very easy to see: repeal copyright. It does nothing but impose artificial scarcity to make the landlords rich, at the expense of progress that can
by Zambyte 3y ago
It's actually very easy to see: repeal copyright. It does nothing but impose artificial scarcity to make the landlords rich, at the expense of progress that cannot be made due to licensing restrictions.
- malfist 3y agoI'm sorry, copywriter laws make landlords rich? That doesn't follow
- Zambyte 3y agoIP landlords, not land landlords. It was a metaphor.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoRent seeking behaviors
- ralmidani 3y agoBe careful what you wish for. Repealing copyright without also making DRM and EULAs illegal would probably do more harm than good.
- Zambyte 3y agoI actually don't think DRM should be illegal. I think that when we are no longer encumbered by copyright, moving past systems that kneecap themselves with DRM will be much easier, so long as the existence of DRM does not hold any legal value either, a la DMCA. EULAs are obviously bogus though, yeah.
- Karellen 3y agoDRM is enabled by copyright law. DRM only works because talking about how to break it, and collaborating on tools that enable breaking it, is illegal - because of copyright law. DRM relies on giving people the ciphertext, and the decoder, the decryption key, and a way to use those to recover the plaintext, and trying to prevent them from figuring out the decryption key for themselves. Without copyright law backing it up, it's toothless. Get rid of copyright, get rid of DRM. Also, EULAs are only enforceable due to the fiction that running software without accepting one is a breach of copyright. Without copyright, EULAs are pointless, and anyone can write and distribute tiny programs to patch out EULA acceptance screens or license key verifiers, because copyright law won't prevent them from doing so. Get rid of copyright, get rid of EULAs.
- saulpw 3y agoHow about we revert copyright to 14 years (plus a 14 year extension if the author is alive to file for it)? Like it was in the US until 1831.