That's like the least noteworthy aspect of German anti-piracy action out there tbh.
There's an entire industry around identifying people who torrent and fining them 4 digit amounts as well as forcing them to sign a declaration never to pirate again in their lifetime (which, when broken, results in contractual fines a magnitude larger). Don't want to sign? Tough luck, have fun losing a lawsuit forcing you to sign it.
The cases where large companies do win won't make news though. "Large companies settles with individual" isn't really headline material now, is it?
Also, small companies != people. Neither me nor you are a company and even small companies have significantly more resources available to them than someone who just created the next Lord of the Rings and didn't see a penny.
There are significantly more companies who would rather start killing politicians than see IP law gone. They rake in billions of shareholder value, much moreso than any AI company out there.
I never argued that copyright law is necessarily wrong or bad just because we went millenia without it. What I am arguing is that these laws do not allow people to create intellectual works as people in the past were no less artistic than we are today - maybe even moreso.
Have you seen the impact of IP law on science? It's horrible. No researcher sees any money from their works - rather they must pay to lose their "rights" and have papers published. Scientific journals have hampered scientific progress and will continue to do so for as long as IP law remains. I would not be surprised if millions of needless deaths could have been prevented if only every medical researcher had access to research.
IP law serves solely large companies and independent artists see a couple of breadcrumbs. Abolishing IP law - or at the very least limiting it to a couple of years at most - would have hardly any impact on small artists. The vast, vast, VAST majority of artists make hardly any money already. Just check Bandcamp or itch.io and see how many millions of artists there are who will never ever see success. They do not benefit from IP law - so why should we keep it for the top 0.1% of artists who do?
the chimp would tell the bear
I thought the bear had died?
The rich want to do it because of AI. That's it.
They can already take whatever you create wihout giving you a dime. What are you gonna do, sue a multi-billion dollar company with a fleet of attorneys on standby? With what money?
They would certainly just settle and give you a pittance just about large enough to cover your attorney fees.
Do you know why companies usually don't do this? Because they have sufficiently many people hired who do nothing but create stories for the company full time. They do not need your ideas.
Copyright didn't exist for millenia. It didn't stop authors from writing books.
Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?
It's a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).
Putin shouldn't be quartered. He deserves the boats (with full medical care to ensure he remains alive and conscious for as long as possible).
I don't think pedophile is accurate here.
It's power difference why someone would want to "date" a 16 year old. It allows for very easy abuse which is usually the main motivation. Sexual attraction to children is less likely because far fewer people are pedophiles than abusers.
You are right. And snowing similarly implies that it's cold outside. But you cannot reliably conclude whether it is snowing if you only know it is cold.
The number of people abusing social systems is a rounding error.
At least in Germany, there are so many barriers in place to prevent ""leeches"" that people who are actually in need of social support don't have any access. Which is the entire point of erecting barriers might I add.
It's because of this image:
It went viral on Chinese social media and was quickly censored by the state. As a result, comparing Xi to Winnie the Pooh became a symbol of resistance in China.
For more detail:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
Both the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice have applied Radbruch's formula numerous times. Its first court appearances were in cases concerned with National Socialist crimes. The defendants in those cases argued that, according to Nazi statutes valid at the time of their acts, those acts had been legal. The courts used Radbruch's formula to argue that some statutes were so intolerable that they had not been law in the first place and consequently could not be used to justify the acts in question.
This is the current interpretation of the meaning of "law" in Germany. Laws which are entirely unjust must be disobeyed.
Though this is different from an administration ignoring the rule of law. In that case it's fairly obvious that violations of laws can be prosecuted by any following administration.
If you do decide on creating a new account, I think either beehaw.org or lemmy.blahaj.zone would be a nice fit for you.
Both aim to provide a well-moderated instance and are strongly supportive of LGBTQ+ people (moreso than other instances).
Beehaw has also defederated from both lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because of moderation difficulties with those two. As a result, Beehaw is a bit more closed off than Blahaj.zone. I recommend checking both out - you can create an account on either and just abandon the one you like less. Or use it as an alt account, the choice is yours.