Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS

Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by southerntofu on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:19AM (#26475718)

Of course we do need art. But most artists are not protected by copyright, quite the contrary! They get extorted by producers and other mafia-like organizations taking their rights away and "eating" all their income as administrative fees.

According to official SACEM statistics, 66% of their registered artists (who pay membership dues) don't receive a single cent over an entire year. The Cour des Comptes (highest french authority for public spending) has published detailed analysis about the copyright mafia and how their 6-digit salaries really don't help artists make a living.

How to make a living is an issue in all of society, not just for artists. We should address this problem globally by making sure wealth is redistributed according to everyone's needs.

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Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by Rule35 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:46AM (#26476607)

> We should address this problem globally by making sure wealth is redistributed according to everyone's needs.

An artist doesn't need the dole, they can get a job and make art on their own time.

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Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by Rule35 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:26PM (#26478976)

If I said "I make decorations but they cost more than people want to pay for them" I'd be told to get another job. If I say "I make art but I'm poor and starving" people feel sorry for me.

There are two types of art, one customers call art when buying it. The other that an artist calls art when lamenting that people won't buy it.

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Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by sopp on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:08PM (#26484933)

Some artists work full time already, we are not talking about hobbyist here but professionals

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Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by Rule35 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:32PM (#26485085)

Then they're successful enough to not be the ones I'm talking about. If you sell art profitably you're a business, in the art space.

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Re:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Re... by zepto on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:12PM (#26485367)

> We should address this problem globally by making sure wealth is redistributed according to everyone's needs

Many people would say that it already is.

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