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  • Perhaps so, but isn’t that up to whoever creates the information?

    No, what I’m saying is that at a fundamental physics level, information is inherently abundant in a way that nothing else made of matter or energy is. There is effectively zero cost to replicating it an infinite amount of times. That is fundamentally not true for anything made of energy or matter.

    If you invent a story, why would you not be entitled to own it?

    Why would you “own” it? If you tell a story what prevents me from also telling that story? The threat of you punching me if I tell my own copy when you’re not around? That’s not owning something that’s unilaterally declaring that you own all copies of something and forever own all copies of it going forward. If I invent a white t shirt, should I be able to claim ownership of every white t-shirt that anyone makes forever? That’s nonsense.

    For much of human history, artistry of all sorts has been a profession, as much as a hobby. The idea of attribution and ownership over one’s art has been a core part of why that has worked and allowed creators to thrive.

    Completely and utterly wrong.

    Because no, the idea of ownership of a song has virtually never been important to art. Professional artists, in the time periods where they have existed, have largely been able to because they would be constantly performing art in the era prior to recordings, and they would constantly be performing other people’s songs that they did not write themselves or they would add their own twists to it.

    A song like House of the Rising Sun can be traced all the way back to 16th century English hymns before eventually winding it’s way through countless Appalachian and travelling singers, before being picked up by 50s era folk musicians, before being picked up by a British rock band called the Animals. This is how music has worked through literally all of human history until the abomination that is copyright.

    Hell it wasn’t until the classical music era, and the rise of sheet music that you actually started seeing real authorship granted to individual people, and even in that era you didn’t own a song, if someone like Mozart could listen and transcribe it then they could also perform it themselves.

    I would argue that the alternative of having no such system at all would ultimately lead to less art and information being created and shared at all, if the creation process is unsustainable at an individual creator’s level.

    Yeah, well it’s a good thing there are lots of alternatives to copyright that aren’t ‘no system at all’.


  • which are both equally absurd and not really worth dissecting further.

    Try having a conversation without resorting to thought terminating cliches.

    And if that’s what you took out of it you missed the point. And given the number of dismissive thought terminating cliches you keep using it does not seem like you actually care to learn or are having a good faith discussion.

    If you are, you’ve missed the point, which is that information, at a fundamental, physics level, does not behave the same way as energy and matter. Computers make it essentially free to replicate information infinitely. That is not true for any physical good. The differences therein mean that information should be abundant, except that copyright and DRM create artificial scarcity where there is no need for it.







  • K, versus 2,750,000 years.

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    Here’s 2.75 million letter h’s

    
    

    Oh wait, I can’t paste that many because at 40 chars per line, it would be 68,000 lines long, or 1000x the Android clipboard’s char limit.

    You are literally describing a meaningless iota in the course of human history.


  • The electricity and silicon required to make this happen are not free, on a societal or physical level. There is a tangible cost to this transfer, even if you’re ignoring the social construct of copyright.

    Completely irrelevant.

    If I already have a computer and an internet connection then I’ve already paid the costs, prior to initiating that particular request.

    I think this issue comes from a misunderstanding of “free”, possibly conflating it for “trivially easy”.

    In the context of pricing resources, those are the same thing.

    Feel free to come up with such a system. I think you’ll find that a rather difficult task.

    The model is the same one used by streaming services. It’s one of reward and attribution rather artificial scarcity. Rather than having streaming and advertising middlemen you have a public system that lets everyone access what they want and rewards creators based on usages. Youtube without Google’s exorbitant profits.

    Copyright has no basis in human culture or history. Our literal entire history is based on a tradition of free remixing and story telling, not copyright.


  • Capitalism itself is a scarcity based system, and it falls apart somewhat when there’s abundance.

    In capitalism, stuff only has value if it’s scarce. We all constantly need oxygen to live, but because it’s abundant, it’s value is zero. Capitalism does not start valuing oxygen until there are situations where it starts becoming rare.

    This works for the most part in our world because physical goods by and large are scarce, but in the situations where they aren’t, capitalism doesn’t work. It’s the classic planned obscelesence lightbulb story, if you can make a dirt cheap light bulb that lasts forever, you’ll go out of business because you’ve created so much abundance that after a bit of production, you’re actually not needed at all anymore and raw market based capitalism has no mechanism to reward you long term.

    The same is even more true for information. Unlike physical goods, information can flow and be copied freely at a fundamental physics level. To move a certain amount of physical matter a certain distance I need a certain amount of energy, and there are hard universal limits with energy density, but I can represent the number three using three galaxies, or three atoms. Information does not scale or behave the same, and is inherently abundant in the digital age.

    Rather than develop a system that rewards digital artists based on how much something is used for free, we created copyright, which uses laws and DRM to create artificial scarcity for information, because then an author can be rewarded within capitalism since it’s scarce.






  • To be fair, they didn’t gut the original creative team.

    Max McGuire was CTO and a programmer on the original game, Ted Gill was President and a Producer on Below Zero.

    Charlie Cleveland was current CEO, and the director and lead designer of the original game, so was the head of the origin creative team, and that does seem like a big loss, but no one else from the art, writing, or design teams seem to be leaving, so it’s not really a ‘gutting’ of the original creative team.

    My guess (especially given how buggy Subnautica was), is that they were missing their delivery milestones so the publisher wanted to replace the organization heads and move at least Charlie Cleveland back down to a creative role, but they refused and left together.


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    If this hasn’t remotely been your experience, how do you know rainbow flicking fixes it?

    It doesn’t fix it, it’s how you avoid letting get that close to you.

    The game is widely known to have multiple bugs affecting gameplay, from lags and desync issues, to crashes and even teams changing colour mid-match. In this case, and this is the second time I’ve seen it, the ball glitched into the ground after randomly bouncing around the pitch following a shot against the post befote finally getting stuck. It couldn’t be interacted with at all.

    Well if this is a bug, you should probably make that clearer, because again, have not encountered a single bug.