Cue shocked Pikachu... Look, people are greedy. YouTube evidently works and is enormously profitable. As is the rest of the copyright industry. It didn't disappear once people had the power to make their own copies. If anything the industry has become more profitable and more powerful. None of this is about survival, it's about greed. If you give people the power to take more they will take it, every single time. The…
> If you want it to stop then we need AGPL software and a decentralised internet. We are in a local optimum so it will seem worse at first before it gets better. But we already have a decentralized internet, it's just that most people will go for convenience rather of freedom... Furthermore, some people here keep claiming that they are willing to pay for ad-less services, yet learned nothing from cable TV... even pai…
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#101It's not really decentralised. Everyone needs a symmetric internet connection. Currently it's common for upload speed to be a fraction of download, like 1/10 is common.