🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square213fedilinkarrow-up11.47Karrow-down126
arrow-up11.45Karrow-down1imageAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agomessage-square213fedilink
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62arrow-down2·1 month agoIt turns out in every era, copyright is a sham. Information in its natural state is free - our legal system tries to change that.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·1 month agoThe laws around copyright are designed to prevent citizens from doing things. The laws around human rights are designed to preventing the government from doing things. The later expands your agency while the former restricts it.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoYall left a big ol’ giant hole in your simplification about these itty bitty things that have an equally outsized impact on all of our lives : Corporations.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoCopyright predates corporations. Many corporations need copyright to extract profit. If you’re anti-corporation but pro-copyright, you’re the only with the big ol’ giant hole.
minus-squarehorse_battery_staple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoCopyright is a sham is my next tattoo. Maybe with Mickey doing something lewd and that’s the banner underneath.
It turns out in every era, copyright is a sham. Information in its natural state is free - our legal system tries to change that.
The laws around copyright are designed to prevent citizens from doing things.
The laws around human rights are designed to preventing the government from doing things.
The later expands your agency while the former restricts it.
Yall left a big ol’ giant hole in your simplification about these itty bitty things that have an equally outsized impact on all of our lives :
Corporations.
Copyright predates corporations. Many corporations need copyright to extract profit. If you’re anti-corporation but pro-copyright, you’re the only with the big ol’ giant hole.
Copyright is a sham is my next tattoo. Maybe with Mickey doing something lewd and that’s the banner underneath.