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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by krisoft on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:15AM (#35872581)
Oh my. After about a single night of that I would invent a water clock.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:01AM (#35873022)
Considering water clocks date back to 1500 BCE it wouldn't be hard.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:41AM (#35874160)
So what did the monks in the pre-1500s do?
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by ben_w on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:51AM (#35874297)
BC, there were no Christian monks for at least another 15 centuries after the κλεψύδρα was invented.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:57AM (#35875299)
Unbelievably, there were very few medieval monks before the birth of Christ.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by bandrami on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:17AM (#35873208)
They had them! But Benedictines were required to do some things the hard way. Dominicans and Franciscans just set an alarm and went to sleep.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by taneq on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:25PM (#35881678)
You're not a monk, though. The tedium and inconvenience is the point.
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