Interesting considering the lack of IP law is going to become Tesla's downfall.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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Honestly at this point, poor people have no form of IP protection whatsoever, even before chat GPT it was commonplace for megacorps to just take other peoples work and profit from and now that LLMs are here its outright routine. So why keep that shit when it only benefits the rich.
Ok. Then you don't own anything anymore.
I'll start making Teslas that don't suck.
Can't disagree here, this would be great
I think Disney might have a few things to say about that.
Along with every other film studio, record company, publisher, video game studio…
…engineering firm, architecture firm…
…pharma company, law firm…
The only sensible thing either of these two have ever said. All knowledge belongs to all humankind.
And people flocked to this guy's social network
It is not and never was his social network. And the fact that they upset him so badly that he left is probably a good sign.
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I'd be in favor of a phase out of IP law. It would probably require a LOT more public investment in the arts and sciences. But public funding would lead to public ownership, so society would benefit on the whole.
No one would be getting rich off of creative works, but we would want to be sure that people will still make a living.
Or UBI would work even better.
The GPL relies on copyright law to keep software free.
Yeah, we'd have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you'd also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.
The DMCA would dissolve and encrypted data that was expected to be decrypted on the fly ("streaming only") would just be published fully decrypted.
It would be a revolutionary shift, but I'm not convinced it would be worse.
What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators from having their works fed to "AI" and regurgitated as slop.
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