This kind of thing is why the "free culture" movement from when I was in college was so utterly unsuccessful at winning over the hearts and minds of the vast majority of working artistshttps://twitter.com/JoshuaYJackson/status/1244269783610265605 …
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What's also telling is that people like this know very little about the economics of the industries they're mad at, especially from the POV of the average content creator, and yet speak with incredible sneering confidence about themhttps://twitter.com/JoshuaYJackson/status/1244281460548415488?s=19 …
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I used to be someone like this, and I was convinced I was full of shit largely because of how few people on my side were at all serious about figuring out how to address objections from people pretty damn sure piracy was hurting their livelihoodhttps://twitter.com/JoshuaYJackson/status/1244280369240846336?s=19 …
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Like it's an undeniable fact at this point that money has vanished out of the whole media industry with a giant sucking sound and as a result the industry is massively polarized now between an aristocratic 1% making Marvel movies and a vast majority making literally nothing
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And the idea that putting out a tip jar or selling merch would replace the vast majority of royalty checks that no longer exist - or be even better! Look at Penny Arcade! - has totally flopped
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The people who look like big successes on the Internet are making decent middle class livings, the people who look like decent mid-level successes are making no money at all and can't quit their day job, and the vast majority of people working aren't visible or successful at all
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And the response to this is "It's always been like this" and the response to that from a lot of people who lived through the transition from the 90s to the 2000s is "No it's objectively worse" Look at how many newspapers and magazines have closed
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Ask anyone about how "top-heavy" the culture industry has become - if you're not making a Marvel movie or a K-pop album owned by a giant corporation with an army of lawyers to protect your investment you're fucked
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They’ve decided to essentially go after an easy target and then claim it a win against copyright - whilst also clearly avoiding any infringement that would put them in the crosshairs of someone with the clout and capital to litigate it. Pure ideological posturing.
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The biggest problem I have with where Free Culture ended up was that the low-hanging fruit was always the worst possible stuff to try to defend philosophically They should focus on abusive edge cases of IP trolls using long out-of-print work to sabotage transformative work
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it's basically "shoplifting, but woke."
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