I am going to come out and say it just so we're clear In college and for a long time after I was the biggest pro-piracy anti-IP Free Culture guy in the world I worshiped at the altar of Lawrence Lessig I came to basically regret all of ithttps://twitter.com/SJRogue/status/1271637852074450944 …
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Copyright needs dramatic reform. So does publishing as an industry. But stealing all the stuff isn't going to do anything to fix that.
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It's fucking insane hearing pro-piracy people talk about how exploitative publishers are for taking 85% of the cover price of a book and only leaving 15% as royalties Okay but you gave me $0, and both 15% and 100% of $0 is still $0, so who the fuck cares
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I'm with you on the arguments, but also can't let go of a deep certainty that it is right and good to steal from Lars Ulrich.
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There's nothing wrong with that, it's like how in general you shouldn't punch people in the face but punching Richard Spencer is awesome
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I think a lot of pro-piracy sentiment can be chalked up to the inhuman face that a digital storefront puts on music. When all your music is intangible data that can only be accessed through Apple products, you start to feel like you're just feeding a bloated corporation.
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And there's certainly a kernel of truth there. Eventually, we got streaming services which lowered consumer costs enough to make that concern go away for the majority of people. But I came into my musical own during the Napster/Limewire years and it was thrilling...
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