Post #2594965

2025-06-05 09:08 UTC

*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo's behest

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@jcoglan@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 09:12

if you take a job at a tech company they will want ownership of everything you make. if you "steal" from a big company or institution they will crush you, they have literally pushed people to their deaths over this

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@tommorris@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 09:20

@jcoglan@mastodon.social people spent years unsuccessfully lobbying to make it legal to rip a CD and put it on an iPod, and pushing back against the effect of ebook DRM on accessibility… but suddenly the government wants to change copyright to benefit Google et al. Very rational to find the difference sus.

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@agowa338@chaos.social 2025-06-05 13:52

@jcoglan@mastodon.social I'd say we all should write our legislators and complain how IP-laws are putting us at an disadvantage in the market compared to big tech and demand them to remove all IP, patent, publishing, .. laws and regulations. (They almost certainly won't just do that but that way it may get enough of their attention to actually do something against big tech for once. Also I don't think they would even listen to any non-economic/market argument to begin with.)

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@lightning@bv.umbrellix.org 2025-06-07 21:09

@jcoglan@mastodon.social prison sentences and indentures #lang_en

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