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I never rejected anything, maybe try reading again and this time not just seeing what you want. And what was successful before doesn’t mean it will be successful today. People just don’t understand context or nuance. That’s you dog.

Welcome to .ml, you’ll get the jokes now.

Yeah, it wasn’t one guy on Reddit lol. Why haven’t you started the revolution?

And y’all wonder why people rag on .ml.

That doesn’t even make sense…

Jesus what a mess of a sentence. You really tried to hamfist that one in there.

How does one go about building their own government/economic system?

Which the parents pay for… They just don’t know what words mean anymore.

Yes, and I think this is how it should be looked at. It is a hyper focused and tailored search engine. It can provide info, but the “doing” not as well.

I like to think I’m smarter than at least most gorillas, and I would lose a fight to a bear in the woods. The bear is a car with claws and thick hide trying to kill you. It’s faster and stronger than you. It also flights and kills to survive and eat often, gorillas do not.

I man that’s a lot of assumptions. In that case, throw some cubs in there and the bear would fight to the death.

IP only protects those who have the means to defend their IP in court, which is rich people and companies.

False. This shows a lack of knowledge around the topic. Off the top of my head I know a specific case where a small grocery store defended it’s IP from Apple. In your world that wouldn’t work. I mean how did JK Rowling go from a poor person with a story to a rich author. She had no money to defend her IP.

This take is just wrong. Factually.

As a consumer, you can download the book, listen to a free audiobook, or print it yourself if you want to. The company only gets money if they somehow make better physical version than what others have access to. To me this is not at all akin to ownership or theft.

So if you create a book or song or art piece, you shouldn’t be entitled to the money that those make? They should just all be free? I mean sure, but then people will stop doing it, because of it doesn’t make money people need to work to pay bills, they can’t create.

You’re missing how commerce works. A big company can flood the market. They can use better materials and ship faster due to being entrenched.

Like, hey, you could make an iPhone but will you? You can make a movie too, but will it be as good, you can make merch, but will it be as well designed and distributed?

Even in your example, where anyone can make a copy of the book, what about the author? They could pour years and their heart and soul into a book just to make no money, is that ok?

Big companies make money of Shakespeare and the Bible all the time. I don’t know why you would think they don’t, they very much do.

You’re also mixing monopolies with IP. You can have a monopoly with or without IP.

Say you write a book.

A big company can take that book, print it and sell it without you seeing a dime. Then they can sell merch and make movies off your book without you seeing a dime.

It’s pretty obvious, but people think IP only protects companies for some reason

What? They still sell things like merchandise and make money from it. You can make money selling Mickey Mouse hats if you don’t own the IP. I feel like you don’t understand the situation being presented.

You write a book. I make a copy and sell that exact book because I doesn’t exist. I just made money off your book. It’s that easy.

I’m brain washed? Lol, ok, since you want to make this about the people in the argument and not the topic itself fine, but it’s still worth pointing out how you’re wrong.

You came across as an I’m 13, and this is a deep post. I get it. You hate rich people; we all do, but you clearly have no idea how IP laws work, thinking it’s just the guy with the most money running around stealing stuff lol. You have some fantasy in your head where if we open everything up it’ll be all better. Ignoring the reality of how laws and lobbying worry, ignoring how patents work, ignoring how you don’t need millions to fight an IP case. I mean how did every famous author make money? They owned their own works. You are sorely misinformed about a topic you have more feelings about than facts.

if rich people are the only ones able to afford litigation to support their copyright

This is %100 not the case. Small mom and pop grocery stores have won cases against Apple. You’re just making stuff up, and I’m brainwashed? lol

it might as well only exist for them

No. Fully no. There are tons of authors, artists, and inventors who have made money off their inventions. You live in some other reality where no one owns anything right now. What you’re saying is they shouldn’t have the sole rights to what they create, you want it to be even EASIER for the rich to take. Because right now, despite what your angsty self might think, that’s not how it’s happening. And what do we get? Oh, I can make my own iPhone now, wow, yah, I’ll get right on that.

You are fighting FOR the rich at this point.

You need to take a breath, educate yourself, and speak on the topic once you know it better instead of ranting about how you feel and think it should be, all from a place of ignorance.

I agree and hope for this. A would were people create to express and no to survive.

Yes! Now this I can get behind. Companies aren’t people!