1. collapsedsquid reblogged this from sophia-epistemia and added:
    Loss would be on the production side, less made and what is made can be of poorer quality without the payoff. On the...
  2. sophia-epistemia reblogged this from collapsedsquid and added:
    i fail to see what losers there are on the consumer side when there are things such as “i want to to backup my pirated...
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    I think you’re overestimating the extent to which losing the exclusive right to the original work prevents you from...
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    It’s funny my “I’m always running across people I know elsewhere online on twitter” thing has upped to “in meatspace”...
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    the version I saw blamed programmers for the 30 year timeframe because the software industry moves so fast.goddamn all...
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    I think there’s an argument to be made for a “living franchise copyright” - a standard in which copyright expires after...
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  16. collapsedsquid said: At some point you gotta decide you can’t let the big companies can’t use their employees as hostages to protect themselves
  17. storywonker said: @collapsedsquid wasn’t expecting you to pivot to Thatcherism but okay
  18. collapsedsquid said: But what about the coal miners when we stop burning coal?
  19. lostimist said: writers will include/be dominated by salaried technical writers, who are NOT getting by on royalty cheques lol
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  22. storywonker reblogged this from zexreborn and added:
    The fact that they don’t do so (because, yes, it would harm their profits quite a bit but they still have many many...
  23. zexreborn reblogged this from storywonker and added:
    I must have been so busy sucking Bob Iger’s cock that I missed the time when Disney or any other major media...
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  25. storywonker said: @collapsedsquid median for salaried writers; the help pop-up says it explicitly excludes self employed authors, which are the ones under discussion
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  28. intimate-mirror reblogged this from exaltedflesh and added:
    Ada Palmer says that it would be good eventually to reduce copyright, but it would be wrong to do that before we’ve...
  29. collapsedsquid said: It says that’s the median
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  31. antihumanism reblogged this from collapsedsquid and added:
    In any case, authors making $16k/year are obviously neither the primary political block pushing for forever copyright,...
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    “Authors are definitely not the poorest people out there” Sorry what the actual fuck? People like JKR might be megarich...
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