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minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·6 months agoI’ll repost comment I did recently: I remember how few yesrs ago I said “capitalism exists because perfect replicators do not exist”. Eventually I realised that perfect replicators of information already exist and capitalists made sure we can’t use them against capitalism.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoWhen computers became mainstream and all sorts of media got into the open Web, many have seen this as the end of copyright history. But it wouldn’t be capitalism if it wouldn’t build sophisticated instruments and twist legislation in unprecedented ways only to protect publishers.
I’ll repost comment I did recently:
I remember how few yesrs ago I said “capitalism exists because perfect replicators do not exist”. Eventually I realised that perfect replicators of information already exist and capitalists made sure we can’t use them against capitalism.
When computers became mainstream and all sorts of media got into the open Web, many have seen this as the end of copyright history.
But it wouldn’t be capitalism if it wouldn’t build sophisticated instruments and twist legislation in unprecedented ways only to protect publishers.