Do you think Nintendo, Disney, and other IP holders, are going to roll over? Just like RIAA did when MP3s were being traded? They are bigger now than ever and the rest of us are stuck with laws that threaten fair use, eliminate first sale rights, and threaten people who just want to fix the stuff they bought.

The bear will only be poked so much before it decides to get up. If the fight seems existential, it’s not the content owners who are going to end up losing.

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joquarky 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm excited because the tighter their grip, the more quickly people will realize that intellectual property is obsolete.

Intellectual property is a violation of nature anyway, so good riddance when that time arrives.

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jonhohle a day ago | parent [-]

And OpenAI and Anthropic get to pick up all the pieces and control the lifetimes of work and billions of dollars spent to create it?

I’m all for copyright reform, but handing it to two companies puts us in a significantly worse position, imho.

	▲	joquarky a day ago \| parent [-]
		So what? If it wasn't those two corporations it would be other giga-cap corporations. IP has been subverted by large companies with full time staffed lawyers to make sure they always win. The only way to beat them is to be another huge company with teams of lawyers. If you think individuals have any of these rights anymore, then your're living in some alternate reality.