Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney

Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It depends. Pirating a specific thing created by someone I think is not good. Ask almost any creator on the Web.

  While using motives, aesthetics, characters, universes … is usually something that shouldn’t be subject to IP law, but in fact is, because the law is not written with any creators in mind, it’s intended to create convenient conditions for big businesses.

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  • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It depends. It doesn’t :)

    Piracy is a sea ship attack. “Unauthorized copying” is the term you seek. Copying doesn’t involve attacks, killing, or even robbing, but piracy – does. And no, it isn’t just some terminology casus. Law strictly differentiate killing, raping, robbing and unauthorized copying.

    No, I don’t talk stupid shit. It is important.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s important propaganda-wise, because it supports a subconscious association between unauthorized copy and and capturing a vessel with its crew. I agree.

      What I meant is - unauthorized copying is sometimes too morally very similar to a robbery. There are people, not living very rich, who depend on it happening more rarely. Of course they are being robbed by intermediaries always and by us sometimes, but they still feel it.

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      • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s important propaganda-wise, because

        Exactly

        copying is sometimes too morally very similar to a robbery

        Never. Robbery involves violence plus moving something of value from the victim to the robber. Your moral compass is broken already by the propaganda you mentioned earlier.

        You may think that copying is “bad” in some cases but it never “armed violent values extortion” bad. Never.

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