Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing
by zzzcpan on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:24AM
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A magical world where such laws can be enforceable would be the same world where people have less freedoms than slaves ever had, as enforcing copyright is fundamentally incompatible with most freedoms.
Let me ask. If you had to make a choice between "obeying copyright laws (where copyright is granted for 7 years, no more and fair use clauses are a thing), or being a literal slave (by the definition most people think of when you use that term), you'd pick the latter?
Sorry, I call bullshit and gross exaggeration.
For some the result was not bad. Even good (Spotify and co are pretty cool, at least for a casual user like myself).
Some were downright awful. Games with DRM, always online requirements, decline of AAA quality single player game (at least proportionally) and user hostile monetization (micro transaction).
In a magical world where we actually had enforceable IP/piracy laws, but reasonable IP terms, I wonder how different things would be. Some stuff would likely be worse. Some would likely be better. But for sure things would be very different.