The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
@ernie Copyright is a tool of those rich enough to enforce it #AbolishCopyright
@mybarkingdogs @ernie absolish all copyright? so if i spend years writing a book, somebody else should be able to copy and sell it for profit? yeah what kind of drugs are you on, pass em around
you don't have to be a drugs. This is a fairly standard position. IF they claimed they wrote it, or if they claimed you approved it, that would be fraud and should be processed as such. But if I were to present "@delric's book presented by @Fu" that is a morally legitimate move. If I happen to be better at publishing, marketing, etc. and the market prefers my version so be it. However historically being first to market is the most important point in determining which is preferred by the market.
@Fu that's hilarious. You are preferred by the market since you only need to cover publishing costs, while the author has to cover publishing costs and the pay for actually writing the book. So you have more resources due to stealing their book, so you can get the same thing out of the door cheaper and/or better, so you win every time unless you somehow manage to fuck that up anyway.
To work, the market requires some enforcement of property. This includes intellectual property. Period.
