• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    That’s why piracy isn’t theft, not why piracy isn’t… piracy. It’s illicit copying as a failure to reward labor. I am personally responsible for nearly every byte in the games I’ve made. Taking that without permission is not expressing anything besides “yoink.”

    Then what is press to you?

    “Free as in speech” is perpendicular to “free as in beer.” Libre versus gratis. This is central to the free software movement. Irfanview is proprietary freeware. Doom II is commercial FOSS.

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      17 days ago

      It’s illicit copying as a failure to reward labor.

      Under what jurisdiction?

      I am personally responsible for nearly every byte in the games I’ve made.

      You are responsible for numbers‽

      Taking that without permission is not expressing anything besides “yoink.”

      Whose permission?

      Then what is press to you?

      “Free as in speech” is perpendicular to “free as in beer.” Libre versus gratis. This is central to the free software movement.

      So a journalist writing a story about your FOSS NES game would cost you?

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          17 days ago

          You’re telling on your own tyranny.
          Freedom of pressers desire the absolute liberation of press. If your FOSS NES is in the Torah, or can be extracted from it from simple indexical logic, is your FOSS NES really laboured?

          I can see you requesting compensation for labor made into formatting the Torah into a NES format for a game. But numbers do not belong to you, or should they.

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            17 days ago

            Giving away my own artwork is tyranny, says someone very serious about word use.

            If your FOSS NES is in the Torah

            And drug use.

            Like people writing all your precious literature weren’t doing labor, because they didn’t invent the letters.

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              17 days ago

              Sharing your art, or keeping it yours only is your choice indeed. But numbers are not art, and your desire to monopolize who gets to copy numbers or not demonstrates your desire to privatize numbers: which is tyranny.

              You can request compensation for writing indeed, but you have to ask yourself if you are willing to censor others’ press to copy your writings. At what point are you willing to use violence to maintain that monopoly?

              Publishers have already chosen to use the states to sue to slavery for those rents.

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                17 days ago

                Digital art doesn’t count unless I own the number 7, apparently.

                Letters are not art, therefore, no work of art has ever been written.

                Fuck off.

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                  17 days ago

                  You can digitize your art indeed, but the corresponding number it ends becoming, doesn’t belong to you, or your demand to monopolize its usage.

                  Letters are art, as scripts and calligraphy are. Demanding compensation under no jurisdiction than your own is tyranny.

                  Fuck off.

                  Enjoy your slavery, prole.