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Piracy isn't stealing. Legally or morally. You know what is stealing? The heavily lengthened copyright term. Every day that has been and will be added to that,
by LocalH 2y ago
Piracy isn't stealing. Legally or morally.
You know what is stealing? The heavily lengthened copyright term. Every day that has been and will be added to that, is a day that was stolen from the public ownership of the work, as prescribed in copyright law.
- hresvelgr 2y agoCopyright and patents actively stifle innovation. I think a statute of 5 years for both is acceptable. If you fail to be commercially viable in 5 years it probably wasn't on the cards but at least someone can learn from the work and continue with it after it lapses.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoBoth are blatantly anti-competitive measures.
- tastyfreeze 2y agoThat is the point. A legal time limited monopoly. But it has to be time limited or progress is stalled. Five years is plenty of lead time to be remain ahead of competition.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoThis seems to hurt society more than it helps. Plus now we are forced to hear yammering about chinese competition "stealing" (translation: competing).
- tastyfreeze 2y agoIf patents are done away with then we go back to trade secrets. Nobody will share their advancements. Then there is potential for advancements being lost.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoagreed. i often consider that "open source" IS exactly what you are saying: release to others a non latest version of software, in continually rolling fashion, whereas upstream is internally used.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoThat world we life in sure feels innovative ..not. 1 new thing per day,with 8 billion humans alive and connected. The web promising the new edison or tesla, meanwhile those two lifed in a time of mass book copying without repercussions. Copyright is toxic, extractive landlording , mining innovationspaces with penalties and bureaucracies. Its deeply anti-libertarian on an individual level. People should be allowed to violate copyright all they want, but if they create something comercial the "inspiring work" as derived from the consumption history should get a kickback.
- jjtheblunt 2y ago> the new edison or tesla, meanwhile those two lifed in a time of mass book copying without repercussions What machines were used in the late 1800s to early 1900s to mass copy books?
- PrismCrystal 2y agoI have never been sympathetic to the notion that copyright has just been extended too long. Copyright itself is the problem. For example, for an academic from a poor region trying to keep up with publications in his field, even the short length of copyright set out by the American Founding Fathers, is too long.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoIt predates America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#History
- PrismCrystal 2y agoObviously. But HN is American-dominated, and the Copyright Clause in the Constitution and the original length of 14 years, are what most people are likely to think of when it is mentioned that copyright used to be a short monopoly to spur the arts and sciences. In modern scholarship, where progress is continual and scholars hail from countries that have differing degrees of access to paid resources, any monopoly for any length of time is harmful.