Posts by uncommon sense

The Lonely Pirate MEP's Holocaust copyright stunt backfires

"Authoritarian regimes don't like the individual asserting their rights. Particularly their rights over their cultural works. That's just a fact."

You don't seem to grasp the substance of your own argument.

Culture is shared expression and behaviour. Authoritarian regimes undoubtedly seek to control people's ability to access and express their culture, but copyright does the same thing. They aren't opposing forces, they are the same restrictions, enacted through slightly different means.

"Authoritarian regimes hate copyright, which is an Enlightenment idea that the individual should own and control their work. For state socialist and fascist regimes this is an anathema: the state should decide; the collective knows best. Pirates owe more to fascism than they are prepared to admit."

Ah, a good old fashioned false dichotomy.

It might suit the screed to present the choice as one between state ownership and individual ownership, but, the anti-copyright position is about a completely separate third option - no ownership.

If somebody can't conceive of a situation other than one where absolutely everything is classed as somebody's property, it's not surprising when they reach bizarre conclusions.