Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
by deepnet on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:21AM
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A lot of people did hard time and worse to change cannabis laws and anti-gay discrimination, voting rights, &c.
Governments change laws when there is political capital in it.
Re:Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
by aninhumer on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:41AM
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I think the real change will come with the increasing use of crowdfunding.
The problem with copyright is that it relies on artists being paid after the fact for their work, which is now impossible to enforce.
But if most artists are being paid up front for their work, they'll have much less incentive to care about copyright. Indeed, many will actively encourage it to create buzz for their next project.
Probably never, and that's fine. At least not until the avalanche of inevitability gets rolling and then it doesn't matter, and that's fine too. That's just how real social change happens. First you get the majority on board, then the rest is just bookkeeping.
Nobody "as a community" stopped "cheekily tolerating" casual cannabis use and "finally stood up", but tolerance got so ubiquitous that suddenly the "squares" were out of touch and suddenly has to "stand up" for what was already the law -- not the other way around.
I'm pretty sure "cheekily tolerating" homosexuality also cumulatively did more for gay rights than "standing up" did.