[Quarrelsome]

> but you don't have a right to consume every piece of media ever created in every region around the world all the time.

Oh you do. Artists and general creatives often tumble into the trap of thinking they can control the spread of their work following public release. You cannot control the zeitgeist of a generation. If your work is popular than the moment you print it, its spread is out of your hands. IP, copyright and legal action are lossy mechanisms that work against the prevailing system. I'm not saying they don't have value (they very much do!) but when your product is consumer-grade content that don't have infrastructure you own baked into its operation you'll find your stuff being obtained illegally if you don't make it available legally and quickly.

I've seen break-dancers expect to be able to have exclusive rights to movement into perpetuity enforced by community-driven shaming tactics (doesn't work) and I've read enough scanlations to know that the Japanese approach to print manga is negligent of the ramifications of globalisation. When you publish, its gone. You have to be more prepared at publish time in the modern era.

[tauwauwau]

Just going to leave it here. Seems relevant

Planet Money: Joke Theft https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/06/710404524/epis...

[zyx321]

As Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem. The only way to cut back on illegal copying is by making the legal way more convenient.

[Jasper_]

And yet when another company copies API documentation, HN calls for lynching their heads [0]. It seems the hacker crowd only has respect for copyright protections for work that they identify with. Protections for the eniineers and startups, but not the artists.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19719380