Pillaged from BlueSky:
"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital."
@AlisonCreekside i am mostly unreasonably amused by the name "Komm süsser Tod Howard" 🤣.
also capital has no interests, the state's law serves the state, and copyright serves to control the flow of information. initially it wasn't even the authors but the printers. it was a privilege for printers to copy certain works (hence the name), after the centralized mode of censorship became unviable.
@AlisonCreekside Wilhoit conservatism:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism
@AlisonCreekside same teenagers perhaps?