I think the really annoying thing about this whole angry mob thing going on right now is people who obviously don't have a very clear idea what they're mad about getting even madder than that because of it
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The free culture side obviously wants this, it's their stated goal to just end copyright, period, people openly say it to your face constantly So yes it is frustrating trying to argue about the legal status quo of something like CDL and pretend we're not talking about that
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My position is a broadly "pro-copyright" position - I'm flexible on a lot of details but I think the idea of copyright is in and of itself a moral good and worth defending Which is a totally middle of the road position in the real world and on Twitter makes you a Nazi monster
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But as a result I'm really, really certain that the Internet Archive obviously also has as its goal "changing the fundamental definition of owning a book" At least from what most ordinary people think it is, never mind tendentious arguments about the pre-copyrjght golden age
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*Everyone* wants to "change the definition of owning a book" because in the digital era that idea doesn't *have* a definition because everything about it fundamentally works differently That's the whole point
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