Anything that destroys copyright is a good thing. It is a societal evil.

palmotea an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> [Copyright] is a societal evil.

Such an extreme and emotional statement makes me think you've never really thought it through. For instance: without copyright the GPL is nothing. Also without copyright, all of the profit made on creative works (of a perhaps smaller pie) would get be kept by distributors like Amazon or Netflix. Authors wouldn't get a dime anymore, it'll all go to the likes of Bezos.

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nullc an hour ago | parent [-]

RMS will happily tell you that he'd trade enforcability of the GPL for the non-existence of copyright.

	▲	palmotea 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> RMS will happily tell you that he'd trade enforcability of the GPL for the non-existence of copyright. Thankfully, RMS is not my guru. Copyright is a valuable legal technology. It should be reformed to curb abuses, but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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tadfisher 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This bill very much does not do that. It does the opposite, in fact. I encourage you to re-read the article.

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OutOfHere 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I understand it risks adding unpredictable political corruption to the process, but I feel that such unpredictable corruption is exactly what it takes to gradually destroy something in an indirect way.

It is not clear to me what their political agenda is. Overall it might be good for AI if the goal is to scrape freely and use it for AI training.

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browningstreet 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This position makes it impossible to discuss these things.

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eli_gottlieb 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When I aim to accomplish something, to destroy some institution, I tend to favor the direct way, because it relies on fewer intermediate points of failure than the indirect way.

	▲	quantummagic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What we favor, and what is possible, often diverge.