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  • I think you don’t understand the difference between fundamental rights and regular old rights. A right does not have to be fundamental to be a right.

    And, if copyright law were about encouraging creation, it would not restrict the use of other peoples’ work.

    Would you do me a favour? Read back over this thread until you realise you just argued creation is “encouraged” by a category of law which only restricts the use of other peoples’ work, including modifying it to create derivative works, and has been used as a club against creation to boot. Consider, how does Nintendo kill Smash tourneys? How many YouTube videos have been wrongly DMCA’d?





  • Ehh, I halfway agree, but there is value in keeping historical stuff around. Heritage laws exist in a good number of countries so that all the cultural architecture doesn’t get erased by developers looking to turn a quick buck or rich people who think that 500 year old castle could really use an infinity pool hot tub; there are strict requirements for a building to be heritage-listed but once they are, the owner is required by law to maintain it to historical standards.

    I only halfway disagree because you’re right, forcing people to pay for something has never sat right with me generally. As long as the laws don’t bite people like you and me, e.g. there are relatively high requirements for something to be considered “culturally relevant” enough to preserve, I’d be okay with some kind of heritage system for preserving the internet.










  • voracitude@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.idPSA: Grayjay is really good
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    2 months ago

    No. GrayJay is good and I’m glad I gave FUTO money for two licenses because it is worth paying for; “free” does not necessarily mean “as in dollars”.

    Also, did the irony of issuing orders to strangers in the very same attempt to “defend” (and I am being generous with that word) the ideals of free and open source software, not give you the slightest pause before posting?