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Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. (variety.com)

submitted 10 months ago by JoMiran@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Dirk_Darkly@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

It's crazy that people believe ideas can be owned.

[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

Ideas no, but money yes. And humans will be forever behind money over anything.

[+] oxjox@lemmy.ml -10 points 10 months ago

It’s mind boggling how anyone could possibly consider otherwise. Aside from your own life, there’s nothing more belonging to oneself than their thoughts.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Once you share your thought, they are no longer yours alone, and the thoughts they spark in others are, in some ways, both yours and theirs. Or, if you prefer to hear it another way, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

This entire sub is delusional. You believe in things which are untrue. You make things up to justify theft. It’s funny and it’s sad. I really don’t know where you get these irrational theories or how you’d ever justify them in a court.

If you want to live in literal communism, sure, you can establish that any idea anyone expresses belongs to the world. In the world we actually live in, we have laws protecting people’s intellectual property in order for them to generate content and profit from those original ideas. Otherwise, what’s the point of having an idea at all if anyone can make money from it. This further promotes new original ideas that aren’t derivative of existing ones. This is exactly what the OP stated and I agreed with.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every now and then I see threads like this on lemmy where people are getting downvoted into negatives despite being objectively correct about something (and the wrong info being upvoted). I think there may be a lot of very young, inexperienced, naive, and gullible children here. At least I hope they're children.