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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.
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.