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0 pointsgumballindie3y ago0 comments

According to terms and conditions. Ip is not information, it’s work. Pay for it or dont use it. I decide the terms of my own output not you, and certainly not a corporation that resells it and threatens me with unemployment.

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andybak3y ago· 2 in thread

> I decide the terms of my own output not you, and certainly not a corporation that resells it and threatens me with unemployment.

Actually - the government decides the terms of your output by passing laws. Your legal right to your content is that which the law allows. If copyright legislation was revoked tomorrow you'd be howling into the void.

gumballindieOP3y ago

What kind of tyranny would allow a handful of corporations to grab my work for free and resell it while making me unemployed? I do want as a citizen to have my work protected, and i equally want that corporations to benefit from it and compensate me if so i wish.

Anti copyright is a bit like communism. What’s the plan? That we all live in one happy commune while the politburo owns everything and we starve in the name of glorious progress? We tried it before and it didnt work.

I'm not anti-copyright as much as "anti-assuming-more-copyright-is-an-unalloyed-good".

> What kind of tyranny would allow a handful of corporations to grab my work for free and resell it while making me unemployed?

Again - a presumption that AI will be owned by big tech - it's already out there and runs on your home PC. And it can't be taken back.

endisneigh3y ago

I don't disagree with you, but many people on HN think digital information should be free, just sayin'

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