Evelyn fra denne andre øya on Nostr: "Artists should be paid for their work" is a wonderful smokescreen, because it's the ...
"Artists should be paid for their work" is a wonderful smokescreen, because it's the sort of sentiment everynyan can agree with, doesn't engage with more fundamental questions about workers' rights, and uses sympathy for small-time artists to protect the interests of companies like Elsevier and Disney.
To put this another way, the venn diagram of those who have meaningful access to recourse under copyright law, and those who're most likely to get away with large-scale violations of copyright law is a circle (and it's individuals and entities with money and lawyers, it's not your local furry artist, or a kid downloading a game which hasn't been sold for three decades).
So, the question isn't whether artists should be paid, it's whether we should torch libraries and jail people for a type of "theft" which doesn't deprive anyone of property, it's a question of whether society should be shaped to protect the interests of shareholders.
Obviously, as a shareholder myself (I love owning stocks, I have over three hundred confirmed stocks and graduated top of my MBA class), I think that capital punishment for copyright violation is the only way forward.
To put this another way, the venn diagram of those who have meaningful access to recourse under copyright law, and those who're most likely to get away with large-scale violations of copyright law is a circle (and it's individuals and entities with money and lawyers, it's not your local furry artist, or a kid downloading a game which hasn't been sold for three decades).
So, the question isn't whether artists should be paid, it's whether we should torch libraries and jail people for a type of "theft" which doesn't deprive anyone of property, it's a question of whether society should be shaped to protect the interests of shareholders.
Obviously, as a shareholder myself (I love owning stocks, I have over three hundred confirmed stocks and graduated top of my MBA class), I think that capital punishment for copyright violation is the only way forward.