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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by otterley on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:41PM (#30591606)
Copyright law does not protect abstract ideas or concepts. It protects specific artistic expressions of them. See https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf; there's also a whole body of law around this.

> Artificial scarcity is not something we should allow.

Unfortunately, unless we're all going back to a society in which people can only produce things that are physically scarce, like food, we need artificial scarcity so that people can produce things that are valuable but not physically scarce so that they can buy those things that actually are scarce.

Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by blurker on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:14PM (#30592050)
You're making a huge logical leap assuming that artificial scarcity is the only reason that we produce non-physical goods, and that's easily contradicted by the existence of FOSS. There are plenty of creators who create things for all sorts of reasons besides profit. And in many cases, there are people who want to create free things and can't because of things like patents and IP trolls preventing them from doing it.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by otterley on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:20PM (#30592148)
> that artificial scarcity is the only reason that we produce non-physical goods

(Emphasis mine.) Who said that? Certainly not me.

Acts of charity happen all the time, and we are doubtless better off for them. But those are a choice. It doesn't mean it should be the only choice.

Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by blurker on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:55PM (#30596252)
Here:

> Unfortunately, unless we're all going back to a society in which people can only produce things that are physically scarce, like food, we need artificial scarcity

You said that unless we have artificial scarcity, we are all going back to a society where people only produce physically scarce things.

Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by thot_experiment on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:53AM (#30597156)
Charity isn't somehow the only other choice, not that this would be my ideal solution but I think we could still have some working version of capitalism where intellectual property was greatly undermined and everyone was better off for it.