• trebuchet@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Conveniently, these moral arguments that are freed from the confines of discrete logic also allow people on /c/piracy to ignore the rules when justifying their own piracy, and still condemn others they already happen to dislike when they do piracy.

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        9 months ago

        So IP law for individuals = bad, but IP law for corporations = good is the general argument here?

        Is there a principled basis for this argument?

        It seems like a lot of art like musicians or novelists rely almost entirely on earnings from selling their works to individuals. Wouldn’t a legal regime like you’re advocating basically make producing art for real people a lot less lucrative comparatively and drive those artists into making corporate art and marketing materials?