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by dmix 1 day ago
DMCA needs to be reformed one day.
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That's not news to me, but this article was a really good reminder of how awful that law is. How have we not gotten it fixed yet??
Copyright should be abolished.
No, but it should only last 10 years or so. Copyright in general is good as it provides economic incentive to produce new creative works. But copyright lasting or exceeding the length of people's lifetimes has done more harm than good to society. By that time, you have long since passed over from incentivizing creators, into enabling rent-seeking corporations.
That would probably cause some kind of massive economic shock and/or collapse at this point. But we can think about how to improve it.