Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The purpose of a system is what it does. It's not that the media execs who demanded ...
The purpose of a system is what it does. It's not that the media execs who demanded copyright extensions in the seventies and nineties failed to foresee that this was a mass cultural extinction event. It's that they didn't care. David Zaslav burning down his own company's vault is part of a multigenerational tradition in his industry. Those media execs know *exactly* what they're doing. They just don't care.
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