The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff.
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@hailey if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
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@hailey Piracy is curation!
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@hailey Piracy already has a definition, and I don't have a boat.
Now it's just independent archiving.
(and fuck yes I would download a boat)
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@drsbaitso @hailey Nowadays we can even print that boat!
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@hailey Oh great. At least there's justification now.
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@hailey In situations like these, I always think about how many people like to talk of the "social contract", and how that mysteriously only ever gets invoked to place obligations on individuals, and never on states or corporations (as evidenced here once again).
Like, people aren't outright pirating because cultural interests are supposed to be balanced by legal exceptions. And leaving aside whether that has ever actually been balanced, if publishers now decide to object to that balance... well.
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@hailey I was just reading this this morning which seems timely
“I am of the firm belief that we are hitting a watershed where economics and morality are coming to a head, like, ‘Look: intellectual property law is based off some ideas that came out of 1400s Venice. They’re not applicable and they’re being abused and people are dying every day because of it, and it’s not OK,’”
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
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Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon)replied to Hailey last edited by
@hailey Example: all ATSC 3.0 pilot stations in the US have all turned on encryption... on FREE TO AIR airwaves. The only way to record content is to decrypt it, breaking the DMCA anti-circumvention simply to record a program without encryption.
(What's worse is if you kept the original encrypted bitstream, the key CYCLES, so a key is only valid for a part of a stream. The only proper way to record is to decrypt.)
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Arne Brasseur last edited by
@plexus In English-speaking world, 1700s' London. You know, the kind of world where the queen would want to deny any publisher the right to copy a book that the queen didn't like, but when codifying it, she tacked on a wee bit of le droit d'auteur kind of stuff to reduce the Parliament's push-back.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Jack Zhang (📹🦝 Raccoon) last edited by