For the first time in history, the entire cultural and academical production of humanity can be copied perfectly at basically no cost indefinitely, can be made available to most for close to nothing, and the capitalists' response was a fucked up model of artificial scarcity because they were afraid both of the consequences and the lack of way of profiting from it. It's almost incredible in its absurdity.
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intellectual property is such a stupid fucking concept. just absolute brain worms
For the first time in history, the entire cultural and academical production of humanity can be copied perfectly at basically no cost indefinitely, can be made available to most for close to nothing, and the capitalists' response was a fucked up model of artificial scarcity because they were afraid both of the consequences and the lack of way of profiting from it. It's almost incredible in its absurdity.
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They never give a shit about the US stealing the blueprints to the cotton gin lol
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Yeah my reaction is literally: Cool they should do it even more
I like to ask Westoids when we can expect back royalties on paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. Makes them real mad.
also Indian numbers and Middle Eastern bronze
Like a petty :british-maw: still seething over how Burgerland "stole" from them.
You could almost say piracy is praxis.