BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron

Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by da_chicken on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#17349431)

Possibly the most succinct refutation of the reasonableness of IP rights ever devised. Rather than proving that copyrights should be respected, it forces people to realize that when computers allow you to completely encompass all human effort into the design or creation of a work, and remove entirely all human effort from the duplication or distribution, dollar value as a measure of scarcity or rarity becomes meaningless.

Also, dammit, we're getting close: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/mkultra-3d-printable...

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by happertiger on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:17PM (#17350352)

I think it’s a reference to the famous anti-torrenting campaign that equates real world theft with torrenting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by a1369209993 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:47PM (#17350531)

Yes, and we're saying that that campaign has inadvertently made one the strongest extant demonstrations that torrenting is actively morally good.

And that's amusingly ironic.

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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by Danieru on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:44PM (#17351503)

"You wouldn't download a car" is a reference to an IT Crowd skit which parodies the anti torrenting campaign you linked. IT Crowd is a wonderful British sitcom, I recommend any techy would enjoy it.

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