Copy of the decision: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hachette-v-Internet-Archive-Second-Circuit-Appeals-Court-Decision-9-4-2024.pdf

Another link from arstechnica: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hachette-v-Internet-Archive-Second-Circuit-Appeals-Court-Decision-9-4-2024.pdf

You wouldn’t pirate a medicine, would you?

You wouldnt’ pirate a human thought would you? The basis of this entire sub, that one pile of neurons deserves for life the rights to a computation.

Ideas/art/concepts/recipes/books are just waiting around to be discovered. We as a species discover them or develop them from our shared culture. And a bunch of rich fucks think they should get perpetual rights because they own all the content mills/researchers, regardless of how much the rest of the species would benefit.

Or if your access would be bullshit constrained.

Endocrinologists fuck up hormone dosages on a regular enough basis that transfems will buy the estrogen powder, convert to injectable solution, and do it themselves.

They should struggle to exist.

Example: Scandal as taxpayer hits a billion in wealth. Prime Minister will lead an inquiry into how a single person was able to monopolize so many resources.

If the whole world was a village Mr. Billionaire would be lynched by now for obviously having all the village resources.

But what would the Jesus do?

This wins my vote for best meme today.

Even simpler than that. Contracts will constrained at having a year of leeway, unless two systems can agree to a version of the best guess of the Gregorian.

Meanwhile the emperor controls the spacers/spice and the date is whatever he wants it to be.

Let the person decide when they’re an adult. Perpetually washing their wang uncircumcised, or needing to wash their wang less - circumcised, but washing it anyways cause hygeine.