Post #4798432 · Elektrine

2026-09-13 18:50 UTC

It won’t radicalize me against copyright because I believe people are entitled to profit from their creations, and until we live in a society beyond the need of money corporations would fuck everyone in the ass (even more so than what they do now) if there were no copyright laws. Or do you any of the mega corporations in Hollywood would give a cent in the direction of a good story of they weren’t legally required to? In any case, that is different from what Sony is doing now. Like I said before: the author can’t go into your house and take the book back they can’t force a new version of the book onto you they can’t require you to proof you own the book before they allow you to read it they can’t stop you from reselling the book. Those are not covered by copyright law, you have a right to do that with your books but not with your Sony games. This steamed from the way digital downloads came about, and we agreed to trade some rights for ease of access, but companies like GoG show that it’s possible to have digital downloads while preserving some of those rights.

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@AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2026-09-14 02:41

It won’t radicalize me against copyright because I believe people are entitled to profit from their creations One, in a capitalist society, the only thing that entitles you to profit from your work is the completion of a sale. I can draw a crude picture of a turd right now, and despite suddenly becoming an artist, I am not automatically entitled to profit. Two, copyright does not help artists profit. It allows the biggest corporations to consolidate media ownership in their names. By contrast, the internet, which has allowed the free sharing of media on a scale that completely eclipses any other time in history, has allowed more artists than ever to profit from their work. If you care about artists making a living, then you should support information freedom. If you prefer concentrating wealth and media control into one small racket, then yeah I guess copyright is your thing. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either you want to reform the legal framework into something equitable, or you can keep bitching about the excesses of the evil corporations for doing the same bullshit they’ve always been doing, while still wanting the same laws that make them what they are to begin with. And meanwhile, you’re having this argument on a free and open-source platform… why?

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