Re:European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
by TeMPOraL on Saturday April 14, 2018 @12:42AM
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> You must have a really short memory to say that "regulators are not enemies". Just look at any history book, tell me what you find.
A bumpy ride from early agriculture, where people died of sickness and war all the time, to the relatively stable modern era of great wonders we all take for granted - hot water, long-lasting food of greater variety than even kings had just a hundred years ago, of powerful medicine and safe surgeries, of wash machines and air travel and the Internet.
All of that built on accumulation of knowledge and stabilization of societies, in which regulators always played a crucial role.
The history books do not paint the picture that "regulators are enemies". You just have to focus less on kings and wars, and more on how a society looked and lived in any given era, and why.
A bumpy ride from early agriculture, where people died of sickness and war all the time, to the relatively stable modern era of great wonders we all take for granted - hot water, long-lasting food of greater variety than even kings had just a hundred years ago, of powerful medicine and safe surgeries, of wash machines and air travel and the Internet.
All of that built on accumulation of knowledge and stabilization of societies, in which regulators always played a crucial role.
The history books do not paint the picture that "regulators are enemies". You just have to focus less on kings and wars, and more on how a society looked and lived in any given era, and why.