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> IMO it is sad that the sort of… anti-establishment side of tech has suddenly become very worried about copyright It shouldn't be too surprising that anti-est
by deergomoo 2y ago
> IMO it is sad that the sort of… anti-establishment side of tech has suddenly become very worried about copyright
It shouldn't be too surprising that anti-establishment folks are more concerned with trillion-dollar companies subsuming and profiting from the work of independent artists, writers, developers, etc., than with individual people taking IP owned by multimillion/billion-dollar companies. Especially when many of the companies in the latter group are infamous for passing only a tiny portion of the money charged onto the people doing the actual creative work.
- Earw0rm 2y agoThis. Tech still acts like it's the scrappy underdog, the computer in the broom cupboard where "the net" is a third space separate from reality, nerds and punks writing 16-bit games. That ceased to be materially true around twenty years ago now. Once Facebook and smart phones arrived, computing touched every aspect of peoples' lives. When tech is all-pervasive, the internal logic and culture of tech isn't sufficient to describe or understand what matters.
- bee_rider 2y agoIMO this is looking at it through a lens which considers “tech” a single group. Which is a way of looking at is, maybe even the best way. But an alternative could be: in the battle between scrappy underdog and centralized sellout tech, the sellouts are winning.
- mulmen 2y ago> in the battle between scrappy underdog and centralized sellout tech, the sellouts are Winning by what metric?