A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright

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ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20326 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2124160 - Posted: 17 Aug 2023, 16:12:55 UTC Last modified: 17 Aug 2023, 16:13:10 UTC We now have the readily accessible technology to record/scan/store/preserve and present for our pleasure, ALL our created Art, whether that be literary, music, performed, visual, sculptured, historical or contemporary, and more: In a world where all Art forever has been accumulated and is instantly available, why create any more? Art is a reflection of our culture, yet also influences and becomes our culture. Part of Art itself is that our view of "What is Art" is changed by what Art we experience. And the constraints imposed by Copyright selectively shape our experience of Art... Is the world of Art something to be hidden away, inaccessible, to be "owned"? Is our very culture something that is to be constrained by being "owned"? Discuss? And keep searchin'! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2124160 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30673 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 2124188 - Posted: 18 Aug 2023, 1:01:04 UTC - in response to Message 2124160. Why would you take the large amount of time to create art unless you get something for it? ID: 2124188 · Reply Quote

Mr. Kevvy Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319	Message 2124189 - Posted: 18 Aug 2023, 1:02:44 UTC - in response to Message 2124188. Last modified: 18 Aug 2023, 1:10:53 UTC Why would you take the large amount of time to create art unless you get something for it? As an example of how broken copyright is: a pharmaceutical company spends hundreds of millions to discover, test, refine, retest in human trials (which can take a decade), certify, produce and advertise a product that has the potential to save millions of lives. They get a 20 year patent. A reporter tosses off a screed about the new product in fifteen minutes, and their work is under copyright for their lifetime plus 70 years. When the US was founded, it was 14 years flat and I would argue it should have stayed that way. ID: 2124189 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20326 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2124729 - Posted: 29 Aug 2023, 15:06:37 UTC For just one example of what we lose: Why are movies and TV shows disappearing from streaming services? wrote: We were promised that everything would be available to watch whenever we wanted – so why are so many titles being removed entirely? ... Classic titles bounce around streaming services all the time because of rights negotiations – but Disney+ was removing content that they made. Soon 76 titles, many of them high-profile offerings, disappeared... ... Why are they doing it? One answer is that it’s a cost-cutting measure: removing content from their libraries enables streamers to write them off as losses at tax time and pay out less ... to actors, writers, directors, and other creatives... ... not to mention the marsh of rights issues which mean that some titles – classic, beloved, or niche – have just never been available... ... “But it’s a whole climate of devaluing.”... Your favorite films and series lost forever? All at the callous whim of a spreadsheet formula?... Culture be damned? Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2124729 · Reply Quote

Mr. Kevvy Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319	Message 2124737 - Posted: 29 Aug 2023, 17:48:06 UTC - in response to Message 2124729. Last modified: 29 Aug 2023, 17:50:39 UTC On that subject, Steamboat Willie's (1928!) copyright is going to expire next year, so it's time for Disney to unfreeze the IP lawyers from carbonite and send them off to Washington to get it extended even more ridiculously, as they have done twice before. Good thing they bought the Star Wars franchise... that carbonite comes in handy. :^p ID: 2124737 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20326 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2124889 - Posted: 1 Sep 2023, 14:13:05 UTC Last modified: 1 Sep 2023, 14:14:07 UTC How can selling ice cream have anything to do with "Copyright"?... All part of a corruptly slimy business?... We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken? wrote: Having won victories for iPhone and tractor owners alike, the right-to-repair crusaders at iFixit are turning to the really important stuff as summer enters its last death throes – ice cream. Leading on the worrying statistic that 10 percent of McDonald's ice cream machines are broken at any given moment, the teardown terrors protest that it doesn't have to be this way... ... iFixit says commercial ice cream machines are often only really "broken" because a bunch of software locks say so. In reality, what might be a simple fix is obfuscated behind "passwords and cryptic error messages," and control of these is what forms the bulk of the manufacturer's revenues through pricey callouts. But bypassing such software locks is a no-no under the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)... ... "lots of easily replaceable parts"... ... "Even if the copyright office agrees to grant the exemption request we filed today, we won't be able to share with you what we find in the brains of our own machine unless we change copyright law altogether," iFixit lamented... All 'just' a 'game' of business?... IT is what we allow it to be? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2124889 · Reply Quote

Mr. Kevvy Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319	Message 2124895 - Posted: 1 Sep 2023, 16:16:16 UTC - in response to Message 2124889. How can selling ice cream have anything to do with "Copyright"?... The documentary that started this on YouTube (complete.) It's quite good. ID: 2124895 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20326 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2125135 - Posted: 6 Sep 2023, 17:37:42 UTC Where oh where is the nostalgia?... Sony Sends Copyright Notices To TV Museum About Shows 40 To 60 Years Old Are those shows now forever lost?... Who stymies our culture??... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2125135 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20326 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2126031 - Posted: 25 Sep 2023, 21:16:41 UTC Really? "Copyright"?? Apple Sabotages Right-to-Repair Using 'Parts-Pairing' and the DMCA Or...? (Perhaps that's why I don't use Apple...) Enjoy? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2126031 · Reply Quote

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