Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t...
by hnlmorg on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:26AM
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> It does not matter what a service can or cannot do. We do not regulate based on ability, but on action.
Whether we agree with it or not, intellectual property laws have historically been regulated by ability as well as action. Hence why blank multimedia formats would often have additional taxes in some jurisdictions just in case someone chose to record copyrighted content onto them. And why graphics cards used to include an MPEG royalty in their consumer cost, regardless of whether that user planned to watch DVDs on their computer.
Not saying I agree with this principle. Just that there is already a long history of precedence in this area.
Like a lot of politics, ultimately it just comes down to who has the bigger lobbying budget.
Whether we agree with it or not, intellectual property laws have historically been regulated by ability as well as action. Hence why blank multimedia formats would often have additional taxes in some jurisdictions just in case someone chose to record copyrighted content onto them. And why graphics cards used to include an MPEG royalty in their consumer cost, regardless of whether that user planned to watch DVDs on their computer.
Not saying I agree with this principle. Just that there is already a long history of precedence in this area.
Like a lot of politics, ultimately it just comes down to who has the bigger lobbying budget.