• _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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    10 hours ago

    Without copyright large businesses would be the primary beneficiaries.

    You merge or sue your competition to death for copyright violations first…

    They’d simply undercut the original inventers with their massive wealth, making the products cheaper(and often worse), selling more and amassing more money for themselves.

    Capitalism without copyright…

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      8 hours ago

      Yes,

      Capitalism without copyright…

      Capitalism is the issue. Not copyright. Why do you think copyright is causing the problems that capitalism is causing.

      You merge or sue your competition to death for copyright violations first…

      A nonsense statement when said in reply to what I said.

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        5 hours ago

        Because the monopolies that capitalism creates, created copyright in the first place…. The monopoly on who gets to form corporations or not is a feature of capitalism that copyright or not strengthens. If you cease copyright altogether, capitalists will still abuse others because the government lobbied them so.

        Capitalism ≠ Laissez-faire free markets, but government owning the rights on who gets to issue bonds and debts. You can’t form a corporation without their expressed permission, if not, you loose your status as a corporation.

        Copyright was expressely created to control the free flow of information, so the King and his nobility could amass wealth + control. It keeps working precisely because folks want a class society: wherein the law protects them, but punishes everyone else.