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Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 month agoYo, that is my sequence of 0’s and 1’s is how ridiculous it all is in the digital era. Not to mention I have to pay for and maintain the hardware to even access the content.
I also have a hard time understanding the self imposed artificial scarcity we live with. Copying work/art/ideas/science is literally the point of humanity. We are truly living in a perverse time where corporations steal our culture and spoon feed it back to us for profit and control.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You should watch this from the “don’t be evil days” days of google.: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkl
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Watching it now, I am pretty sure I know most the history but there is always more to learn. Thanks!
MichaelMuse@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The central takeaway is a critical examination of copyright’s history and its current relevance in the digital age. The speaker promotes a shift in the conversation towards a model of creativity and distribution decoupled from traditional copyright, emphasizing that copyright was historically designed to protect distribution channels rather than support artists. He argues that the internet’s capabilities render those mechanisms obsolete and calls for a new understanding of creativity, free from the constraints of the current copyright system. Ultimately, the speaker urges the audience to question the widely held beliefs about copyright and to support the free flow of information. The youtube video is summarized by transcriptly