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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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Efforts to use technology to police copyright evolved into companies using copyright law to lock people out of repairing their own devices.
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    So what they’re saying is VCRs ruined everything.

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      … Or video killed the radio star?

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      TIVO KILLED JOHN DEERE AND A CAR

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      Or criminal consumers who blatantly copied artistic Creations and shared them with their accomplices without being punished by a copyright police

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        criminal consumers who blatantly copied artistic Creations and shared them with their accomplices

        waow-based

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        Lol /$?

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        Right, because that’s obviously destroying content-creation jobs while AI scraping is somehow great

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          AI corporate executives are too rich to be legally responsible for their crimes, just like those on the Epstein files.

          Poor people are legally accountable for their crimes unless proven innocent

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