Funny how they suddenly think IP laws are bad ehh
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Nah, they'll make corporations immune from it but the normal consumer will still have to deal with licensing hell
semiconductor synapses have more natural rights than y'all soon 😂 work and pay, cattle
Please keep in mind Jack Dorsey is just some guy who’s had the same shit idea twice.
Not true, before he went full cryptorasputin, he also started Square, which legitimately helped small businesses. Note that I’m not talking about cash app, that’s genz dogshit, and the entire cash team is a bunch of fucking cringey memelord zoomers.
Source: me, I worked there. I was proud of the work I did up until he lost his mind.
Wonder what he’d think if I had released all our source code on GitHub, since ip is bad now 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
He absolutely doesn't want to get rid of them, just make large corporations immune from claims or maybe even able to take copyrights away from others. Abolishment of copyright goes against these people's core beliefs of control, they don't want copyright gone, they wish to control it.
I would never trust a billionaire to do anything for us. If he doesn't just carve out an exception for only people like himself at first, he'll still lobby to have new restrictions on sharing if they threaten his business model.
It'll end up being a back-and-forth between him and the IP companies, so if he has enough leverage, they'll just find a way to give him what he wants without doing so for regular folks.
Yeah, that's about what I expect from a billionaire.
He wants the poor not to have copyright laws. The rich will always keep their safeguards.
The poor already don't have copyright laws, and the rich continue to have their safeguards. This is already how it is.
What? You think those laws on the books are for you? No. Only the rich get to enforce those copyright laws.
It's even worse than saying there's no copyright laws, because the poor think they have them.
He is an American oligarch, bad faith and dishonesty are to be expected in everything they say or do.
People who rule you and people who own the country are threat actors. Yet some how we got adult men larping their talking points and literally simping for these "daddies"
Copyrights for good or bad, do protect the little guy. I am sure these mega corps would love to blast their lawsuits out to the little guys and bury them. He is a bad faith actor.
Part of the reason I was skeptical about Bluesky.
I still don't get why people are moving to yet another centralised platform (bluesky is not truly decentralized).
No matter how much someone agrees or disagrees with the lemmy devs, the platform is decentralized and they can't really enshittify it.
Because most people don't know or care about that factor. They just move to whatever's easiest to use.
Society as a whole will need to learn these lessons before such proper shift happens. It will eventually happen since trajectory of enshitification has been set.
They are all future Linux users too, and they don't even know it lol
I hope it popularizes the idea of algorithmic control.
Removing all copyright protections would essentially be a reset and would ultimately be a negative for society, even compared to now.
Now, on the trajectory that we're making, we're in a bad place and heading to a much worse place very quickly. We have to do something.
Getting rid of copyright protections entirely is not it. You must have protections for privacy and investment protections that encourage innovation. But where we are right now is entirely too far.
You must also consider AI as a pressing issue in ethics, with a WAY higher priority than copyright protections, but also with copyright protections as a variable.
Nothing is ever simple. Anybody who says anything is simple is manipulating you, and even the truth to that statement, itself, is complicated.
Even if you did get rid of copyright (which they don't actually want, they just want a carve out for their LLMs) it wouldn't matter for anything owned by major players. For example, there was a gap in US music IP law for like 40 years for anything from before the system was nationalized in the 70's (IP rights were a state-level concern for music before that) but if you legally copied a Beatles album from the prior state system, the rightsholders would still sue you into oblivion by sheer force of lawyers and infinite money. In a system that allows the rich to use money to just grind you into dust with no recourse, what is actually legal is somewhat irrelevant, it's how many dollars of capital are you pissing off.
That's a perspective that I had considered.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
there was a gap in US music IP law for like 40 years for anything from before the system was nationalized in the 70’s
Always has been always will be, I have always been against "intellectual property"
Don't worry, the oligarchs also want to release any content they own as smart contract so ownership is eternal and a driver of blockchains. Then they want to make breaking DRM or smart contracts more heavily punished. "Protection for me, not for thee"
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Who needs IP laws when you have EULAs that bar competition? Certainly not corporations with their armies of lawyers.