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The concept of "intelectual property" is crazy to begin with, you can't own a thing that is not economically scarse. Nobody owns the atmosphere, nobody owns mat
by ximira 2y ago
The concept of "intelectual property" is crazy to begin with, you can't own a thing that is not economically scarse. Nobody owns the atmosphere, nobody owns math, nobody owns a sequence of bytes. If you can copy it, you can't steal it. You have the natural right to use their public code the way you want, as they have the natural right to use your public code the way they want. In the positivist game though, wins whoever has more money to spare on lawyers, so you lose by default even if you wanna play the legal game. The deep pockets always win on that front.
- numpad0 2y agoIP is cultural maximalism paperclipping. It ties ambiguous substrings not economically explained to as much of human output as mechanically possible and arbitrarily inflate importance of living humans. Which is a great thing.