Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished by matude on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:22AM (#49622559)

Funny how copyright used to be held to such extreme value before that many governments agreed to implement the "empty cassette laws" which then got conveniently also applied to empty cd-s, even though there's no guarantee that every single empty cd would be used to burn copyrighted material. And now that the copyright has become an annoyance to AI training, suddenly there's voices and support to abolish the whole thing.

I agree that it is broken and probably needs to be reformed, but abolished outright would lead to a ton of issues right?

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Re:Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished by ketzu on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:53AM (#49622860)

> And now that the copyright has become an annoyance to AI training, suddenly there's voices and support to abolish the whole thing.

My observation is the opposite. Copyright was never as popular as it is now in the public discourse I have seen.

Now that the unpopular companies are against copyright, it is useful and more popular. (at least as long as the context is those companies)

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