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If IA is dismantled, and doesn’t manage to survive on its Canadian or other outposts, historians will look back on its destruction with disdain. Cultural heritage destroyed so corporate stooges can afford another yacht or whatever. The only way to fight this is to pirate the fuck out of everything. Seriously. Fuck DRM, fuck gatekeepers, free information NOW and ALWAYS.
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So the answer to 'disgusting predators' is to declare all 'art' (ludicrous distinction, why not everything, and why art?) free? Why not go after the 'disgusting predators' instead?
you seem to be suggesting that abolishing copyright is tantamount to abolishing private property this is obviously nonsense; no human society is known without private property, though there are extremely well-attested societies without writing, without farming, without war, without monogamy, without women, and without clothing by contrast, all human societies were free of copyright for hundreds of thousands of years…
The U.S. Constitution authorizes copyright as a limited monopoly granted to authors and inventors, for a limited time, in order to promote progress in science and the useful arts. A system that allows lawyers to bury old works 70+ years after they were created, by authors who are long since dead, is clearly out of control.
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Australia has ranked choice voting and it has not resulted in Australia making better decisions. I'd argue that in muddling the level of preference between options by overquantizing things, it biases elections towards the status quo and a complete lack of change, and motivates the two main parties to minimize (or eliminate) their differences. It can be better to pick the one you like most rather than to sort a bunch…
> If you intentionally spoil your vote, that's actually a crime in Australia Incorrect. Spoilt votes are legal and non criminal - spoil your own vote as much as you like. > Albert Langer wasn't convicted of spoiling his vote. He advocated everybody spoil their votes, and handed out "how to not vote" flyers He was asked not to, there was a court case, an appeal, an injunction against Langer, a deliberate violation of…
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you seem to be suggesting that abolishing copyright is tantamount to abolishing private property this is obviously nonsense; no human society is known without private property, though there are extremely well-attested societies without writing, without farming, without war, without monogamy, without women, and without clothing by contrast, all human societies were free of copyright for hundreds of thousands of years…
Without women?? Genuinely curious how this is sustainable.
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> how expensive it can be to market music. Did you write this comment in 2001? The cost to produce and promote music has dropped to near zero. SoundCloud rappers have become millionaires. Billie Eilesh recorded her first album in her bedroom.
I'm dating someone who has visions of fame through his music. These "soundcloud rapper millionaires" and Billie Eilesh have so much more marketing spent on them than you might believe. It is hard to make it anywhere in that business without a lot of promotion, and that requires a lot of money. Initially often in the form of small payments that add up. A few hundred dollars here to be added to a playlist, a few hundre…
If IA is dismantled, and doesn’t manage to survive on its Canadian or other outposts, historians will look back on its destruction with disdain. Cultural heritage destroyed so corporate stooges can afford another yacht or whatever. The only way to fight this is to pirate the fuck out of everything. Seriously. Fuck DRM, fuck gatekeepers, free information NOW and ALWAYS.
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"some people" like creating art for free. They presumably would be people who do not need to create art for money, ergo? (typo)
I'm not really sure I understand why I should suppose that. I've seen people in every category, who started with a passion and did or did not turn it into a job, and did or did find the time to keep making art for the love of it You can do art for money or not, I just don't see how you're trying to relate this to archival of music that is no longer sold, whose authors aren't around anymore. I get the impression you'r…
US Copyright laws, that tend to circle the globe, are obnoxious, favoring the already wealthy or established entities to make creativity an unfair business. I look forward to the change.
I am not advocating a blanket position on 'art', or any human endeavour, for that matter. But it would be amiss to not at least mention wider implications to society and culture as a whole.
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If you had actually looked it up you would have cited sources.
You made the claim, so the burden of proof is on you, nevertheless: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15764/prevalence-of-music... One thing I did find is that, for some reason, Covid saw a drop in music piracy. That has nothing to do with the claim that “since Spotify released (2011), music piracy is non existent”, though. I didn’t bother to read on idea of why that occurred.
https://musically.com/2021/12/13/online-music-piracy-declini...
And Spotify might have released in 2011 but it went mainstream around late 2010s.