Amazing things happen when motivated individuals and communities disregard arbitrary and evil laws.
You might not be entitled to all content produced, but you're also not entitled to exploit people and win endless profit.
Cut out the parasitical middlemen and use LibGen, SciHub, and all the myriad communities that have built up around curation and distribution of content. Pirate everything. Donate directly to authors and creators, actors, writers, and others.
But IMO the prize for greatest accumulation of copyrighted digital cultural artefacts goes to the original megaupload. (The vast majority of which was lost when their servers were raided and shut down.)
Surely Facebook and all the other companies will get sued for using copyrighted material for their products. Right? Right? Let's just hope it won't be so bad for these poor companies. Thankfully companies themselves can't contemplate suicide.
I know this is a snarky comment but the double standards are killing me.
Also this has been said a thousand times but I have to repeat it here. Abolish the paywalls for scientific research. Elsevier and the rest of the gang that produce nothing of value, gatekeepers of knowledge that did not produce. Seriously, what is their running cost nowadays? An FTP server with the PDFs? Semi-honest question.
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Seems like that should be the lede a lot more.
You might not be entitled to all content produced, but you're also not entitled to exploit people and win endless profit.
Cut out the parasitical middlemen and use LibGen, SciHub, and all the myriad communities that have built up around curation and distribution of content. Pirate everything. Donate directly to authors and creators, actors, writers, and others.
Please. I'm sure if your livelihood was affected by piracy, you would feel differently.
But IMO the prize for greatest accumulation of copyrighted digital cultural artefacts goes to the original megaupload. (The vast majority of which was lost when their servers were raided and shut down.)
Maybe archive has it beat now though.
Actually, no, I think megaupload still beats it.
I know this is a snarky comment but the double standards are killing me.
Also this has been said a thousand times but I have to repeat it here. Abolish the paywalls for scientific research. Elsevier and the rest of the gang that produce nothing of value, gatekeepers of knowledge that did not produce. Seriously, what is their running cost nowadays? An FTP server with the PDFs? Semi-honest question.