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Courts are coming for digital libraries (reason.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27904255

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Whoooooo boy, The internet in the united states you're using right now, is going to be unrecognizable in the next 12 months, all free services will charge, cost for access will increase, speed will be symied, vpn usage will be curtailed, and archive, library, and pirate sites will be blocked.

We just re-elected a fascist tyrant who wants to close as many avenues of education and free speech which can be used to educate, organize, and publish against him as he possibly can, as well as funnel as much cash to media and tech oligarchs to keep them onside, and now he's got both the house and senate with which to do just that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I already VPN 99% of my traffic offshore. Do you think the threat to VPNs is eminent? I’ve been thinking about shadowsocks a lot but I’m not sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We just re-elected a fascist tyrant who wants to close as many avenues of education and free speech which can be used to educate, organize, and publish against him as he possibly can

Can you point me to instances of Trump closing avenues to education and free speech during his first 4 years? Can’t find any, but I’m curious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trump administration really didn't pull off much in his first 4 years because absolutely bloody chaotic administration ran more like a reality show with Republicans not knowing the game he was playing. But can talk at least one of his big talking points he tried then and is likely to push again.

"School choice"

A push has been going to get instead of money going to private schools, that tax dollars go to vouchers that can go to charter and private schools along with the public schools. Naturally it's sold as "your kids can go to whatever school you like." But what this means is now the people who can afford private schools won't be putting in to public schools where the poorer are still going to go because

A) These schools you still have to get accepted into. Public schools at least, you're in the district, you go to school. Looking up a private school in where I grew up involves sending test scores, letters of recommendation, writing samples, family meetings, etc. If you're a have not, you're not going there.

B) Tuition for this school is $29,300 for a student. One of those vouchers is not going to pay for that. Now used to the way to afford was to apply through the local business families group (Walton Family Foundation... Yup, Walmart) but now it's talking about Indexed Tuition with a lovely bit of "We also recognize that your family may need more clarity regarding your expected family contribution before proceeding with the application process: if so, please do not hesitate to contact the tuition committee"

This along with the attacks on teachers unions continue to degrade the public schools, likely leading to many of the ones both rural and urban shutting down due to lack of funds that are getting hoovered up by these private organizations. That's one of the attacks on education in the country right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So nothing? Ok

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He doesn't have the House yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He doesn't?

I'm not being sarcastic or making a joke. I thought he won all three categories.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The House is still being counted. It's very close, but not over yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

TIL!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm from the future. He does.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be a real pity if people had easy access to facts and literature that might stir the imagination.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

We don’t want the proletariat to get any ideas…

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We really need to strip back copyright protection and limit it to 10-20 years.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

5 to 7 honestly. There needs to be more pressure on companies to actually execute on their ideas instead of sitting on them for years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Copyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Not quite. You can't turn movies into books or games, or vice versa, for example. Sometimes such projects get stuck in limbo. Or think about how everyone hated the final season of Game of Thrones. Can't do anything about that in our life times.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Owner class won't have that. They are using laws against taxpayers and feds are happy to oblige.

I don't even know how something like that can be changed under the current regime.

At this rate they will start charging for air here soon. PE already profiting" buying" water rights. What demented government official signing off on something like that.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Time for a revolution.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

We've been overdue for a revolution at least in copyright law for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks Disney.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Get Disney and Sony first!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

sure, but the other side has all the guns, and now after this election control all the organs of state, which may pose a problem

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the other side has always been the state and it's always had all the guns

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

But now they don't need to pretend to be human anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Stock up while you can.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Host it on the tor network.

Host it on web 3.0.

Host it outside the US.

Host it over torrents and i2p.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yggdrasil and freenet too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

IPFS

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That's really interesting!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yoooo, is this the dog whistle for me to raise the black flag? These publishers are insufferable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

And everything else.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

If we are lucky history will forget about us all.