som33
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
>Capitalism isn't really a political system, even though people seem to elevate it to one.
It is you need a giant violent state to create a culture of sophisticated property rights. AKA capitalism requires a state and legal system, it doesn't exist without one. Things like copyright and Intellectual property are pure man made cultural political fictions, they do not exist in the natural animal kingdom.
How is it possible to own large tracts of land the size of small cities or entire provinces without a state/army to enforce it? AKA before populations got big there was plenty of "common" land that wasn't anyones. Property rights are a cultural invention.
Comment · 6 years ago
>I want an economy where we can celebrate automation and distribute the profits evenly.
Not going to happen under capitalism.
Look at the numbers, they are pretty horrifying.
https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/images/wealth/Net_wor...
https://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Comment · 6 years ago
No, they are not clueless, they've been stealing software since the late 90's with mmo's.
They wouldn't be celebrating your cluelessness, they are talking about a "revolution", aka a revolution in the publics cluelessness about software ownership.
Why does ANY piece of software need a remote computer in order to function?
https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...
Comment · 6 years ago
Software is largely enormous margin in an era of increasing drm and encryption because they can delay piracy indefinitely like on mobile with client-server gacha games.
Check out the revenue for mobile, it's insane because it preys on mass stupidity and tech illiteracy.
https://newzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Newzoo-2019-Gl...
Either way many segments of software you can be sure are making insane profits like Overwatch, league of legends with selling flags for skins.
The internet has given tech companies 24/7 access to the super rich, the super gullible and super mentally ill.
Think about that for a second, before the internet people with brainless spending habits had no direct access to companies they got their products through intermediaries. The internet is a game changer for software companies because they can trap software inside "the world sized PC" we call the internet.
The internet remember, is the worlds biggest motherboard, and whoever programs the motherboard owns the motherboard. That's how we ended up with steam drm, uplay, origin, etc. We've been getting hacked software and slaughtered on the privacy freedom front because the average consumer is retard level stupid when it comes to technology.
Many software companies are getting away with the crime of the century. I'll see if I can't poke around and find some helpful guides for you to decode corporate speak.
Comment · 6 years ago
Subscription software is just a way to fleece gullible people, most software before mass internet penetration allowed stealing software (I refuse to call software as a subscription a rational thing for 99% of software).
Is just a way for companies to sell you the same shit repackaged with only minimal effort. You don't seem to grasp the fundamental principle of a corporation is to give you the LEAST possible service for the highest possible price. AKA it's fuck you I got mine.
99% of the time Software as a service preys on gullible people and flaws in your psychology you aren't aware of. Best to stay away.
Piracy actually put pressure on companies to innovate because you could get the complete version for free there was some incentive to improve the product to make it better than the pirate version, as strange as that sounds. Piracy is actually good for competition because most people are honest, if that wasn't the case Microsoft, EA, Valve, etc couldn't have become rich pre-internet where it was trivially easy to pirate everything by just copying the files.
Modern DRM is literally holding files hostage using the internet as a dongle and using encryption.
So no software as a service preys on gullible people to sell you last years with minor tweaks at inflated prices.
So no, you don't get the idea of owning ideas is directly itself an attack on freedom itself, aka if you can claim you own ideas you can use violence against others because you believe in that idea. The problem you're not seeing is that it's impossible to enforce property rights for ideas while not infringing on basic human freedoms. Copyright is backdoor to get rid of property rights for the public by associating it with software/technology.
The idea that we just need "good regulation" to stop the abuses, is bs, since the last 200 years of copyright has always seen its power and abuse expanded and not reduced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
So you're the one making disingenuous arguments. Since our culture is literally being irrevocably destroyed and there's no way much culture during this period will be saved because of the lawlessness of the USA and general idiocy of its citizenry.