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Remember when online progressive #hacker / #privacy culture was anti-#copyright, anti-intellectual-property, pro-data hoarding and pro-piracy?
When the general utopia was a world where art was shared, free and the public collective property of all of society?
Why has everyone turned into the copyright police and decided "IP enforcement and DRM are good actually and I hope the state police finally does something to crack down on #cybercrime" since the #AI nonsense began?
Like, I am not pro-#GenAI in #art in the slightest, but I am upset that we all seem to collectively have done a 180 and now we're supposed to celebrate intellectual property enforcement, DRM and closed, paid, inaccessible art.
I still think art is a collective product of society and should not be guarded with intellectual property and copyright laws. That doesn't mean artists shouldn't be paid - it means that artists should be paid AND not hide art behind an inaccessible repressive law-wall.
@lianna these notions of being pro- or anti-intellectual property are meaningless anymore.
What we should be demanding now are laws that actually protect artists, not just their so-called “intellectual property.” But this requires nothing short of a all-out political revolution.
- Anyone should be able to enjoy artwork freely and to reuse copies of artwork to derive new artwork. This requires total reform of the legal notion of property, and laws making rent-seeking illegal, which would include abolition of intellectual property as illegal rent seeking.
- Artists should have the right to not go homeless for quitting their day jobs and devoting their life to their artwork. This requires total economic reform that does not force people to work jobs in order to survive, and does not punish people for being homeless — does not allow for anyone to even be homeless.
Now with AI firms stealing the labor of artists and using it to enrich themselves, it shows how empty and meaningless the concept of “intellection property” always has been. It was never about protecting artists, it always only ever for rent seeking. So demanding anything less than revolution is only enabling these crimes against art and artists.
This is a strawman.
People are (rightly) upset at billionaries stealing both from the commons and from everybody else.
The problem is that right now #copyright (that backs #copyleft) and #dataprotection (#GDPR and so on...) are the only (weak) shield people have to fight back.
They are in fact too weak.
We need a total ridefinition of #PublicDomain, turing the default to a strongly protected #common that can be used freely but only to produce more content (#software, #art...) under the same public domain regime.
We need to turn unprotected #commons to an exception.
And we need stronger data protection and privacy laws, that grant people the right to be paid for any abuse of their data an exponentially growing amount (say 1€ for the first bit, 2€ for the second, 4€ for the third and so on).
Finally, we need to get rid of billionaries. Hopefully, without too much violence.
@giacomo That might be your opinion. It's not common, much less the norm.
It's not a strawman - talk to those people. A large portion of the crowd behind the "protect artists" slogan are genuinely pro-DRM, pro-monetising every aspect of human life and expression (as long as the ones doing it aren't rich cishet white men but instead model minority "small businesses"), anti-copyleft, anti-common culture.
They *want* art and information to be inaccessible private property.
@lianna i see it as more a sentiment of "it needs to be for everyone or nobody" but i also wouldn't hate a situation where profitable organisations had to pay and individuals had free access.
@lianna Monetization is the root of all Enshittification.
@lianna internet is just changing and so is the world. Maybe people see less merit in the ways of #opensource maybe it’s just boring old greed.