drummyfish/less_retarded_wiki
5
1
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity

Update

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Miloslav Ciz 2024-08-29 16:19:22 +02:00
parent 1ed9079ad4
commit 124b9d1e7c
26 changed files with 1840 additions and 1813 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2
copyright.md
View file

@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Copyright rules differ greatly by country, most notably the US measures copyrigh
Not even lawyers have any clue about copyright in all its complexity, it's so hugely complicated by now that apart from very clear cases no one can usually safely tell you what's copyrighted and what not, it's not defined clearly, different countries have different rules and precedents and if you win a copyright court case or not depends many times on who the judge is, whether he got laid that night and if he took a good shit in the morning. The moral of the story is this: KEEP IN THE SAFE ZONE, never go to copyright gray areas, make everything yourself from scratch, minimize reusing someone else's works.
Copyright does [cultural](culture.md) harm as well: for example it tightly connects people with ideas and art, their "property", and extorts a force against attempts at separating humans from ideas, which is necessary for critical evaluation of ideas. While past philosophers correctly saw art as rather being discovered than created, as when we're discovering new land or laws of nature, copyright removes any subconscious humility, it makes man into a god who CONJURES a thing, owns it, controls it and has absolute authority over it, further fueling the extinction of humble individuals. If now someone discovers a new way of arranging colors on a canvas so that it pleases human eye, people see it as "logical" that he can forbid anyone from doing it or demand money wherever this arrangement appears. It is not logical at all, but it now seems logical -- the power of evil is [unlimited](yes_they_can.md) and can bend even [logic](logic.md).
In some countries copyright terrorists already establishes a kind of tax that is paid when buying a storage device such as a USB stick -- it is now assumed the device will be used to share copyrighted material so you pay extra money in advance to copyright holders for this crime you are found guilty of before you commit it. Welcome to [21st century](21st_century.md).
[Copyleft](copyleft.md) (also share-alike) is a concept standing against copyright, a kind of anti-copyright, invented by [Richard Stallman](rms.md) in the context of [free software](free_software.md). It's a license that grants people the rights to the author's work on the condition that they share its further modification under the same terms, which basically [hacks](hacking.md) copyright to effectively spread free works like a "virus".