I would make the same bet. Had the "extremely online kerfuffle" gone in a more... nuanced manner, id also bet that might be different Hence my annoyance. I call that a lost opportunity
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You know the whole point is that because borrowing is no longer throttled it doesn't matter, since an infinite number of borrows can exist there's no way a "never would've bought" borrower can displace a "might've bought if they had to" borrower
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Anyway it's not that much of a lost opportunity, the anger has obviously made this a much bigger news story than it would've been otherwise
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Has it? It's sure been a loud argument on Twitter, I'll grant you that.
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There have been multiple followup stories in mainstream outlets about the controversy after the initial couple of stories just treating it as a chipper announcement about a cool thing
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Changed any minds d'ya think?
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The NYT and the Guardian weren't trying to change minds, just reporting the controversy
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The argument though, that was supposed to, surely?
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Most of the point of arguing is to mobilize people who vaguely lean in your direction to become passionate about it, not to actually bring people in large numbers across the aisle
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I actually was convinced over time to switch from being a copyleft zealot - I helped run my college's fucking Free Culture club, I was a Lessig acolyte - to something of an IP maximalist and RIAA bootlicking shill But it happened over a long period of time
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And for the record it has nothing to do with my own livelihood being affected by piracy
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