Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.
Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.
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I’m so sick of whiny corporate removed thinking they deserve $400 million payouts because some website implemented a free digital library of books they already owned so people could still borrow them during COVID when all the libraries were shut down.
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yes but what you said in reaction to “when sites try to archive information and incredibly rich copyright holders with infinite money and lawyers sue them to the detriment of human wellbeing in order to earn a pittance more to add to their infinite dragon hoard and that’s bad” is “you’re a whiny removed.”
perhaps it would’ve been worth considering adding your thoughts on the nuances of how laws bind vs protect people in the original comment?
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Why post an incomplete comment then if you’re too lazy lmao
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Meaning you couldn’t find a way to explain your bullshit boot licker comment that was sufficiently flattering to your ego.
Obvious troll at this point
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Why are you trying to change my opinion on changing other people’s opinion?
Oh, i guess you won’t answer that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sick of parasites profiting from works made by people who died half a century ago. Can’t they do anything of value with their lives instead? Maybe something that benefits society instead of being a burden on it?
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you sound like a whiny little removed
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Yes and discussing it will help this to happen
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How else is this supposed to change when not by challenging the status quo? Or are you suggesting that it is only allowed to do so in a court of law?
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The problem is that this approach requires the goodwill of those in power, and because the power imbalance is very much tilted towards large capitalist mega-corporations and billionaires, no courts will ultimately have an interest in changing laws. This is the reason why civil disobedience is required, as a tool in order to increase the pressure on those in charge to change the law. Do you think that the owning class of the Ancien Regime would ever have made such concessions in 1789 as they were forced to? The French Revolution is the ultimate example for the fact that sometimes, when the power imbalance is too great and the institutions are rigged against the people, riots and armed conflict are the only option to preserve, regain or establish freedom.
The courts of law is how corporations made copyright so ridiculously long and so ridiculously in their favor. They own the system. Do you think we’re on an even playing field here?
Bullshit you agree.
C’mon, break the law, you know you wanna download a car 🚗
Bootlicker spotted.
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Why are you worried about some rich corporations’ “property”… Focus on your own shit.
I will start respecting copyright law as soon as corporations start respecting “the laws” until then fuck 'em
Playing by the rules is for clowns who don’t understand the system.
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Cool… Still give zero fucks about “your” property haha
Gtfo
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Copyright for individuals is to be respected. But corporations? Fuck them.
You’re literally on EVERY post just spewing hateful bullshit for no reason. Grow up
You should go become a Disney lawyer and increase copywrite to 1823!
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They sure seem to have no issue gathering all our data and info for free.
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The whiny removed to whom you refer clearly do not appreciate your analysis.
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people aren’t downvoting you emotionally. they just very much disagree with the notion of an individual owning intellectual property, and the idea that copyright somehow spurs innovation instead of snuffing it.