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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:37AM (#41257297)
Well, as a [former] creative, myself, I don't think that I'd consider what I did, "collecting rent on IP."

In fact, if you look at the behavior of many tech company legal teams, that seems more like what tech corporations do, than individual creatives.

This is the stuff I did in the 1980s, when I was considering making a living at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886

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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by chaostheory on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:56PM (#41258066)
Because you’re not the one doing it. It’s the music labels that are doing it. You’d also be lucky to get fair compensation for your work. Even superstars get cheated.

The behavior of music labels is far worse and less valuable to society than the tech industry

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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:18PM (#41258291)
> far worse and less valuable to society than the tech industry

The jury's still out on that.

The music industry can't hold a candle to some of the raw destruction that has been wrought by tech.

It's just balanced by a lot of good (and making tech billionaires isn't really what I consider "good").

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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by chaostheory on Thursday August 15, 2024 @03:05PM (#41259306)
At least the tech industry contributes something, which is more than I can say about music labels.
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