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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i admit, i am leery of this whole clusterfuck-feeling thing for a variety of reasons, one of them being i am not keen on making writing even more of a resource hole for the writers, even further entrenching it into a craft only able to be seriously pursued by the wealthy.
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perhaps i worry too much or incorrectly, and god knows it's a problem with the current system as is. but i can see how the end/weakening of copyright without also strengthening other radical avenues of support can cause... an issue
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i mean, what happened to the clothworkers when the sewing machine broke big? i'm not sure. i was taught by capitalists that it was a True Good, Ultimately. and they tend to gloss over a lot of the uglier sides of that.
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i admit, also some of the pro-IA arguments that boil down to "save the good things the IA does by backing this maybe-murky thing" aren't... necessarily wrong exactly. but it tastes of Gawker to me? which is another thing i might not understand well, but...
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like, sure Thiel is evil and it's an unhappy world with him ascendant, but Gawker didn't die on a noble hill, it died on a fucking disgusting one where it argued it was within it's rights to continue making-available someone else's sexual recordings against their consent
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and like okay, but just because someone does good in some places doesn't mean i should shut up and cheer when they screw up and do evil
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Brewster Kahle is obviously an extremist with more than a touch of megalomania, which is why his friends have affection for him and why his enemies find him creepy and disturbing He's obsessed with the idea of putting all information on the world on a single hard drive
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Even his supporters point out this is a dangerous obsession to have for someone with his stated goals, like that's why IA is a dangerously centralized project where one bold risky move to singlehandedly make new law in one field can put all the rest at risk
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Like Open Library and Wayback Machine are very different projects with different goals that work differently and impinge on IP law differently If you see them as logically connected to the extent that supporting one *obligates* you to support the other, you're an ideologue
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