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Why copyright makes no sense

6 points mnaimd 2 hours ago 7 comments

1223aZ 1 hour ago | parent

Children, please remember:

- RIAA bad, Musk good.

- Artists bad, Altman good.

- Authors bad, Amodei good.

fluffybucktsnek 51 minutes ago | parent

The RIAA is indeed quite bad, regardless of Musk. They only exist to further make of copyright a dystopian nightmare.

I guess some people love DRM and further losing control over our owned devices.

BoxOfRain 14 minutes ago | parent

The RIAA is good? The outfit which opened legislation for outrageous sums against random teenagers over a couple of dozen songs? The outfit among others waging war on general-purpose computing? The outfit whose reason to exist is more or less to enclose and privatise the cultural commons that belongs to everyone?

I don't like the big AI firms either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to side with literal IP troll outfits.

beardyw 1 hour ago | parent

You should add [video] to the title.

Cider9986 34 minutes ago | parent

It's added automatically so they must have edited it. Also [2019] is customary.

Here's a similar discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622042

oldgregg 26 minutes ago | parent

It’s been about control of culture and rent seeking for a long time

wahern 7 minutes ago | parent

A scholarly and far more rigorous argument against copyright and patents can be found in Against Intellectual Monopoly by economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine.

It's a published book you can buy in hard copy (I bought the ebook on Kindle) but practicing what they preach it's freely available online, http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm