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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months ago

Laws only matter if you're not rich.

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Laws only matter if you're not rich.

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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months ago
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  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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    who da fuck disliked the post? How dare you!

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      Probably the same person that snitched on Luigi.

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        I would also snitch on a murderer tbh.

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          Unqualifiedly?

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      Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we’ll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.

      Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts’ story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it or not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.

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        Shoo go back to being poorly photographed in forest settings.

      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I guess I’d be fine with a piracy discussion

      • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I don’t think the post is a meme nor low effort content

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          Honestly curious what kind of content you believe requires less effort to post than an image macro?

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        Memes keep us going during dry times…

        But yeah once we have sufficient amount and quality of discussions, threat actors will use memes to suppress that.

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    Fuck meta and a BIG FUCK OFF to AI and all the companies slurping up ai slop “tech” to implement it in their rubbish software, apps, white goods, appliances… Fuck. It’s just infected every conceivable facet of our lives and no one is objecting it, it’s like everyone suddenly forgot about how many engineers spoke out about the dangers!

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      I love how ai isn’t resulting in the collapse of everything, its just an annoyance. The worst thing so far is the excessive scraping and shrimp jesus.

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    Rest in power, Aaron. 🫡

    Eat the rich.

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      They’d make better fertilizer (especially with that plastic-eating fungus on hand), so there’s taking a bite outta world hunger in the same stroke. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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      It’s Luigi time!

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    Crazy idea:

    If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…

    Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?

    So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.

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      out-competing them for sales…

      Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying “profiting from someone else’s work”.

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      LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.

      Instead we got the Rings of Power.

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      If we had the political power to fight Disney, then we could enact a UBI so everyone can get free art all the time.

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    The Schwartz wasn’t strong with him.

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      Suck my Schwartz.

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    but, to be clear, we didn’t want Aaron to be prosecuted, so things are better, now.

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      lol, lmao

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      That assumes he wouldn’t have been prosecuted for the same thing today…

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    Another reason to tell Obama to fuck himself.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Along with his treatment of Snowden doing a public good.

      • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        And the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz

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    Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.

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    Aaron Swartz lives on

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    This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.

    But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.

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      Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.

      you must be rich, white, and not too disruptive

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      I see this post and think “progress toward the abolition of intellectual property”. I’m sure Aaron would agree.

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      Tbh I just couldn’t think of a good title. Maybe “Laws don’t matter if its a company doing it”?

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      You need to be “i own several politicians” level of rich before it helps

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    Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?

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      plagiarism is an academic crime, not a civil tort.

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        It’s a copyright violation to use someone’s work without permission. (Regardless of your feelings about copyright or intellectual property)

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          plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.

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            Back when I worked as a designer, using work without paying for usage rights leads to exposure of being civilly sued for copyright violations.

            You’re wrong. Confidently wrong.

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              if you were sued civilly for copyright violations, that’s not plagiarism. That’s copyright infringement. plagiarism is something else.

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                Plagiarism is an infringement against copyright.

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                  if I plagiarize The Bible, that has nothing to do with copyright. it’s still plagiarism.

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                  no it’s not. it’s an academic crime.

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      You can but you won’t win unless you can prove anything, so good luck with that.

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        Even if you can, you’re fighting against a company that has annual revenue similar to some country’s GDP.

        No company should be allowed to get this big.

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          *unless it’s product is collectively owned by the public and for the public as a civil service.

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        Now we need something like nightshade for text.

        • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eeBanned from community
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          That’s a far harder problem than it sounds unfortunately.

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            Yes. I see no feasible solution to this, without impacting the reader experience.

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      It’s possibly classed as fair use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.

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    I genuinely believe that if he was still around he’d of ended up a proponent for federated social media. I’m pretty sure he was the driving force behind opening it’s source, and it wasn’t until four years after his death that it was closed off again.

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