Information doesn’t have “owners.” It only has – at most – “copyright holders,” who are being allowed to temporarily borrow it from the Public Domain.
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Metz@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI’m not sure if i can agree with that. A third party cannot simply override the rights of the owner. If i want my website gone, i want it gone from everywhere. no exception.
That kinda also goes in the whole “Right to be forgotten” direction. I have absolute sovereignty over my data. This includes websites created by me. If i want it gone, it will be gone.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Imagine that absolute historical clusterfuck if terrible politicians and bad actors could just delete entire portions of their history.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yes they can, otherwise Disney can decide that that DVD you bought 10 years ago, you’re no longer allowed to have and you must destroy it.
Right to be forgotten is bullshit, not from an ideological standpoint right, but purely from a practicality stand point the old rule of once its on the internet its on the internet forever stands true. That’s not even getting started on the fact that right to be forgotten is about your personal information, not any material you may publish that is outside of that.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Disney can decide to terminate that license but the disc is another story. The license is for the media on the disc but the physical disc itself is owned by the person who bought it. This is literally why a company can remove a show or movie or song from your digital library. The license holder can always revoke the license. It was harder to enforce with physical media (and cost prohibitive in a lot of cases), but still possible.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
No, they can’t Google first sale doctrine.
They can remove shit from your digital library because in page 76 of the terms and conditions that you didn’t read, they redefined the word purchase to mean temporarily rent.
Metz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You compare entirely different things here. I’m talking about a website i own not a product i sell. And no, this “on the internet forever” is complete and utter nonsense that was never true to begin with. the amount of stuff lost to time easely dwarfs the one still around.