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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • how many musicians don’t have the right to their own work because record companies dominate the music industry?

    But not having copyright law doesn’t fix that, it makes it worse. Without copyright law if you make music, a big label can grab your music and sell copies without paying you anything. Sure you can try to sell it yourself and try to educate customers that they should buy it from you. But the big label can easily out-advertise you and get into the top spots on streaming services, online and physical stores etc. and get 99% of the sales.

    Same for artists, writers, programmers, photographers, or anyone else whose work is protected by copyright.

    I fully agree things are not great right now, but that’s not copyright laws fault. I think you need other laws and regulations to fix things, like small creators should be able to sue large companies with minimal cost if they infringeme on their copyright. And there should be some sort of provisions so companies can’t trap people in horrible contracts. I’d also love to see fair use exceptions broadened in cases where the copyrighted material is just not available anymore, like old games or movies that are not sold anymore. Shorten the length of copyright too. But getting rid of it completely would not work.








  • The police can confiscate your servers. Considering some states are treating abortion as murder, I don’t think it’s unrealistic to say the police could raid your home and confiscate your devices just on suspicion.

    The only thing safe against that is an encrypted device locked with a password, no biometrics like fingerprints or face ID. As far as I know, you can refuse to give a password under the 5th amendment, but you can’t refuse to unlock a device with a fingerprint reader or face ID.