idc if "Nintendo is doing bad shit with copyright" is a petty reason to want revolution I want it now.

also i recently learned how like half of the Japanese hololive vtuber's stream archives were wiped out (mostly privated and people swear they'll come back but its been 4 months) because of capcom being shitty with copyright too and the hololive company going batshit insane in overcompensating. I dont even watch vtubers (though im starting to get interested in them) but I do get super fucking anxious about deleted content being gone forever so the faster we can get to revolution and end that shit the better thanks love draggo.

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I think abolishing copyright and intellectual property in general is a fine enough reason unto itself to make revolution.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      My only hesitation is that previous socialist revolutions haven't, to my knowledge, abolished copyright and IP and I'm also concerned that its a sort of first world concern

      • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean it's not really a first world concern. In fact I would argue the opposite, and the most recent examples of this is several third world countries calling for the covid vaccine patents to be open. There was a recent democracy now interview about this.

      • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I may have been being a bit tongue-in-cheek. As far as accomplishments of a revolution go, copyright and IP will probably be toward the rear end of things to accomplish, because it is as you say, a first world concern. I still hate both things with a passion, though.

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          4 years ago

          it seems to me that IP laws and copyright stand as a big impediment to efficient progress. Ideally in a socialist country "trade secrets" would be open knowledge so that anyone could work to improve it, similarly to free and open source software paradigms.

          I think it's fine for people to receive recognition for/own their art and music and stuff like that but I'd like to see a major expansion in the rights of people making transformative/derivative works where someone can't just torpedo your shit just cuz you used 10 seconds of their song or whatever.