what does that even mean?
Something like this: eff.org/…/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective…
Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 months agoI think what we should do is to have better non-piracy ways of owning things instead of “making piracy legal” (what does that even mean?)
Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
localme@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Thanks for sharing! I wish they had the date of publishing listed for this article. I get the feeling it was written 15 years ago, well before streaming music services existed. Would love to see them update this based on the latest technologies and services.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 months ago
Looking into the metadata of the included PDF version reveals that it’s from 2004, so even a bit older than that.
localme@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wow good find using the pdf metadata!
Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The EFF’s concept was from the Napster days, but I think this was written later on.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I want to see a world where content creators are simply paid by the hour, while they work. Why do they get to still make money off their work 70 years after they died?
Yes, it would probably mean that billion-dollar-movies aren’t viable anymore, and most YouTubers couldn’t live off their videos, but I see that as a good thing.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 5 months ago
want to see a world where content creators are simply paid by the hour, while they work.
Do you? Because that’s how game developers get their ideas crushed in favor of yet another game as a service that nobody asked for but makes stock holders happy.
And for alternative creators, who would pay? Do they need to be churning content as a job and not because they are inspired?
I get the idea, it’s just that seems hard to pull off
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making “piracy” legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn’t be. Making “piracy” legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Most people would be fine with this in the case of a home user duplicating one or two copies for his kids to watch and as backups. But we have seen whenever a rule permits something, someone will work out the MAXIMUM way in which they can abuse it for profit. Give them an inch, and they take a mile.
Ideally, we could have laws that are really finely built to be specific to that first scenario. But I honestly don’t know how you write those.