Message from @Syzyf
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Has everyone seen this yet
no
Some people in the world don't even have computers, much less internet
Important stuff to understand, if we wanna unfuck the intellectual property situation in the world
Dreaming big, I like you.
But first you have to kill The Mouse...
Rn, even the biggest anti-establishment candidate would be dead in the water if they suggested loosening the patent and IP laws
I think it won't happen until we have governments
Which do more to stop creation and help big corpos profit than to protect creators
> until we have governments
As opposed to trainwercks?
Something like that ye
IP has continually proven to be a disaster in the patent area as well.
I mean, info anarchism is a good refuge until we solve that, but it's just a refuge.
Remember how 3D printers exploded on to the scene? Patents expired making them widely usable.
Patents *expired*?!
Egads!
Unthinkable
Companies were sitting on that shit doing nothing with it until they expired.
Joerg Sprave made a good vid on why patenting doesn't work well for individuals too
Think of it this way.
Humans respond to incentives and we naturally are drawn to power. Some more than others.
In a system where you are incentivised to fizzle out any competition there's absolutely no incentive for truly free expression. There are degrees of course but I guess this is the gist of it.
I would like that too
Most people don't
Power, money, all of that, is just a side effect
🤷♂️
At least nobody seems to be talking about extensions on IP anymore but they really need reigned in. Being held back by somebody sitting on or poorly developing a patented product for 20 years was bad enough ages ago but with as fast as things move now tech being locked behind a patent for 20 years is an eternity.
Smartphones are a good example
Similar problem until it was released into the freemarket
Anyway, signing off, gotta wake up early and make Poland function despite lockdowns
And copyright should go back to the original 14 years, maybe even axe the 14 year extension they used to be able to apply for.
Back in the day when copyright was 14+14 years almost no industry bothered applying for that extension.
If you can't figure out how to monetize your work in 14 years you dun fucked up and you don't deserve a lifetime+70 years.
FBI OPEN UP
```22:48: 129 new cases in Colorado, United States.
22:42: 131 new cases and 4 new deaths in Massachusetts, United States.
22:41: 87 new cases and 2 new deaths in Texas, United States.
22:35: 166 new cases and 4 new deaths in California, United States.
22:33: 1,575 new cases in New York state, United States.
22:26: 225 new cases and 14 new deaths in Washington state, United States.
22:01: 87 new cases in North Carolina, United States.
21:59: 287 new cases and 9 new deaths in Brazil.
21:36: 293 new cases and 7 new deaths in Turkey.
20:39: 103 new cases in South Carolina, United States.
20:07: 88 new cases and 2 new deaths in Connecticut, United States.
20:03: 82 new cases in Arizona, United States.
20:02: 97 new cases and 1 new death in California, United States.
19:58: 110 new cases in Tennessee, United States.
19:57: 236 new cases and 3 new deaths in Illinois, United States.
19:45: 55 new cases in Nevada, United States.
19:44: 930 new cases and 7 new deaths in New Jersey, United States.
19:43: 77 new cases in Luxembourg.
19:02: 196 new cases in Switzerland.
18:57: 3,838 new cases and 186 new deaths in France.```
That NY Times bit:
> New C.D.C. data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were age 20 to 54
Dumbass zoomers and millennials think they are immune. That percentage should be closer to 20%.
Scary but true
Maybe the Germans have something in their water or their food and the solution is a lot simpler...I haven't seen much research on that yet.