Or limit copyright terms to ~20 years and repeal Section 1201 (together with 512 for good measure). That would cover far more than just old games.
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Or limit copyright terms to ~20 years and repeal Section 1201 (together with 512 for good measure). That would cover far more than just old games.
Don’t see a problem with it as long as they don’t get copyright on the outputs of their AI. That would make enforcing any IP impossible on the internet because there’s no way to prove it wasn’t AI generated.
Maybe don’t call them shitlibs?
Valve has a pretty unique flat structure that could protect them from a corporate buyout, even more if Gaben decides to transfer ownership into an employee trust and turn it into a full co-op when he leaves.
This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don’t have money wouldn’t destroy everything like in RARBG’s case.
Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.
These are all fast, violent and kind of similar to each other:
Bluesky is working on persistent identity with a DNS based scheme. You still have instance accounts but they’re optional and posts reference DIDs so getting kicked out won’t break mentions.
It covers Apple/Google tax. They didn’t want to have lower revenue on mobile or go the Spotify route.