5th December 2023, 9:18 PM
It's been something I think about more and more recently as well. I totally understand copyright when it comes to a creator, like an actual creator. Heck I understand rewarding those who fund creators... but what I don't get is the purpose of a corporation owning something that either was made by someone long dead or was "traded" from another corporation that actually funded the project. Why is that something we allow to take place?
In any case, here's what I'll say. If a corporation steals something you bought from them... pirate it. It's literally reclamation at that point, not theft in any meaningful sense, and I DARE a corporation to sue someone over that.... On second thought, I take that back. I don't dare a corporation to sue over it. The winner of a lot of legal battles is usually determined by attrition, going to the one with pockets deep enough to afford to continue paying their lawyers.
In any case, here's what I'll say. If a corporation steals something you bought from them... pirate it. It's literally reclamation at that point, not theft in any meaningful sense, and I DARE a corporation to sue someone over that.... On second thought, I take that back. I don't dare a corporation to sue over it. The winner of a lot of legal battles is usually determined by attrition, going to the one with pockets deep enough to afford to continue paying their lawyers.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)