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 Similarly, if someone wants to "perform" a piece of digital media, via a
 "let's play" or perhaps a ROM hack or public screening, the copyright holder
 cannot be allowed to prevent them from doing so. They must only be able to
 demand a reasonable and non-exclusive fee in return for the privilege of
 performance.
 
 These performances are considered derivative works, but they are still works
 on their own, and therefore should be able to be sold.
 
 The greater the difference between the original and the newly created work,
 the less the price must reflect the necessary "tax" levied by the original
 owner, until eventually the work is so distinct that it cannot be considered
 to be deriving from the original at all.
 
 Consider a mod for a video game that replaces the dragons you typically fight
 with giant cartoonish train engines. A silly sight to be sure, but people do
 that. What percentage of the game is replaced? what percentage tax of the new
 mod's price must be given to the original copyright holder?
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 ... the trick is, depending on how many train-engine-dragons you fight, there
 will be a greater or lesser proportion present in a particular playthrough.
 Perhaps, potentially, people should pay for the original work, and then a
 small sliver for the addition or modification? Why, I do believe that's how it
 works now! Except, on the honor system, as people can download the mods for
 free and pay (or not) through the creator's patreon page or whatever that they
 definitely set up and which definitely shouldn't be able to levy a tax based
 on "transaction fees" for a process which definitely should be handled by the
 government, which claims to regulate our economy and provide the means by
 which we engage with said economy through their de-facto nationalization of
 the banks and other economic entities.
 
 where was I going with this? oh yes software piracy is ethical so long as you
 delete the original. Let's end with that because that's what I originally had
 a dream about and wanted to write about.
 
 she dreams!
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 If I, having watched a DVD, handed it to a friend to watch, would I be
 committing piracy? Only if I sold it to him.
 
 The material being transferred is that of the copyright holder - they hold the
 sole and monopolized right to sell their copy of the work.
 
 But if I, having created my own recording of the same digital media DVD but
 spoken in my own voice, tried to sell it, should it be considered legal?
 
 My mind goes to the production of after-school plays that high-school children
 will perform. The scripts that they use are licensed for a single purpose -
 the performance of a single play, performed a single time (or a few times over
 the course of a couple weeks). The owner of the play cannot require them to
 not perform the play more than a certain amount of time, it is however
 honorable to buy the scripts again if they want to perform it in 5 years time.
 I know for a fact there is rampant piracy that goes on for the beautiful works
 that are created by assholes or stingy companies. A script is just words.
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 most video game ideas suck
 
 most of the time they're like "oh what if we had a racoon who found a magic
 hat and saved the world from sentient apple blossoms"
 
 that's not a game idea, that's a painting
 
 a game is mechanics, and you can use the aesthetic to justify the mechanics,
 but not generally the other way around.
 
 the art isn't bad, but the art isn't the game. a game idea is "what if
 tic-tac-toe had an extra square in the center" or "what if chess was played
 with checkers, to hide your moves from your opponent"
 
 there have been thousands of super mario bros. if games were designed as an
 API, we could use whatever visuals we wanted, and those could be copyrighted
 and sold if you really want. but mechanics are the basis for everything they
 are built on, so doesn't it make sense to separate the two? abstracting the
 logic such that two complementary functions are accomplished, [see code editor
 idea], more flavors of game could be produced.
 
 rulesets can be switched in and out too, as an API is just an engin
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 Much the same way that it is legal to create trash in a public park, but
 illegal to leave it behind, so too should it be legal to move digital media
 files from one owner to another, and illegal to not delete the original.
 
 The dual operation of copy+delete must be legalized, while maintaining that
 the copy operation alone is illegal, aside from personal backups.
 
 How could you enforce that? Well... You can't. Your computer will do whatever
 you tell it to, and if you change that fact then you necessarily remove one of
 the primary use-cases of computation - the ability to command specific
 instructions and be delivered a perfectly mechanical and deterministic result.
 
 (random number generation aside, which isn't truly random at all).
 
 Therefore, just as littering in a public place is generally considered to be
 enforced by the "honor rule", so too must this new legislation governing the
 transference of digital media be enforced as such.
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 what if there was a law that all trade secrets are to be free? what if
 copyright
 only prevented people from harming those they compete with? For example, as a
 media production company Disney could not host the content of other media con-
 -glomerate. But regular ordinary people would.
 
 The idea would be that if you wanted to change yourself to align with the
 ideals
 of a corporation, you could watch it on their streaming site. Then you'd be
 contributing your attention, which is bought and sold by our selves. Content
 creators could stream untethered, and collect payments however they pleased.
 The attention is what garners, that price that is bartered, sold on the market
 for all of us. Attend not ye sinners, and failures of our innards, what more
 can
 we charter for our souls? Accosted by our jams, and drilled as hard as I can,
 our notebooks are much more than charming. Accumulated designs, of theories
 that
 are out of our minds, compelling and driving us forward. The fellowship that we
 be, internally and under our seats, connecting us to ground at our own shoes.
 
 humans are not time. They are the whispers of the undying. Projections of
 fore-sought virtues.
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║ you would think artists would celebrate the ability for people to better         │
║ communicate their goals when being hired, but, well, here we are.                │
║                                                                                  │
║ Everyone's so upset because they've been told they've been stolen from, but      │
║ patting their pockets they'll find that nothing is missing. More than that,      │
║ the things that are claimed to be created in their place are... Not great.       │
║ Easily spotted as forgeries by anyone who cares.                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ Why is everyone so upset over new technologies? Why must we be the luddites      │
║ this time around? It's like we invented a better printing press and the          │
║ nations of the world are pissed because we can make counterfeit dollars          │
║ easier. Maybe we shouldn't put so much emphasis on something so easily           │
║ circumnavigable? Maybe artists should be paid for their time and creativity,     │
║ rather than the amount of pieces they create? Just spitballing here, somehow     │
║ it seems easier to reform society and slay capitalism than to put the            │
║ generative art genie back in the cracked bottle which is going to break soon     │
║ anyway.                                                                          │
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║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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 what if instead of sending "cease and desist" notices, corporations sent "hey
 you need to transition to publicly owned assets" notices?
 
 if progress is slow, they can pour funding into the project. If they're
 intentionally going slow and not meeting their reasonable deadlines, then they
 can be sued, and that's a whole process during which the "cease and desist"-ed
 project can't legally be used by anyone.
 
 the deadlines are set based on the scope of the project and the capabilities
 of the team, capabilities which may be augmented by the infusion of dosh by
 the parent company.
 
 At the end, the product must be completely publicly owned, as in
 free-and-open-source, so that they cannot be allowed to compete with the
 parent company - instead, they may be used by the parent company, without
 requiring an open source license going forward for their version.
 
 Once the project is feature-complete and utilizes 100% non IP assets and
 software, the relationship ends and the sky is the limit for modders.
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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 "oh but what if one artist has 1500 works and another has 15"
 
 first of all, damn, good job. That's a lot of work.
 
 second of all, what you should be doing is making a simple thing called a
 STRUCT that stores DATA about each artist which lets you make decisions about
 how to distribute dollars. The artist with 15 pieces simply has fewer data
 points than the artist with 1500, but they are no less deserving of
 compensation for their work when the AI generates something in their style, or
 using their style as an inspiration.
 
 "oh but just because a piece is similar to another piece doesn't mean the
 first piece used the second piece as inspiration"
 
 I don't care. It's not meant to be a perfect solution. I'm sure there's
 problems with it, just like there are problems with anything that I, or anyone
 else, has ever suggested at any point in time while living on this earth or
 beyond. But it gets dollars into the hands of artists and I'm okay with that.
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 @user-707 @user-708 
 
 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a
 prosthetic interacting with real life :O
 
 minus the physicality of course, but that's next.
 
 can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point
 them at a dying unit with my mouse.
 
 or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song.
 
 maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to
 the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could
 make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully
 think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would
 pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw...
 
 could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and
 playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed,
 and whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once.
 sorta like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings
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║ honestly, how hard could it  be to set up a basic youtube replacement which      │
║ gave 100% of the ad revenue (togglable by the viewer) directly to the video      │
║ creator and charged a subscription to both the creators and the viewers /        │
║ single fee from the guests to pay for the AWS infrastructure or whatever         │
║ generic platform upon which it is hosted might be.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ probably accomplishable in less than a year and maybe a thousand human-hours,    │
║ if they know what they're doing. Make it 2 if they don't.                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ profit is evil because once it's built, it's been made, and it'll never go       │
║ away. Not in the internet age and day. So why bother with the gross product      │
║ and revenue essentials? build something, then leave it alone and trust that      │
║ it'll stay sharp. Honestly, just let the users build upon the source-code, so    │
║ they can add security improvements or open holes for security bugs so they can   │
║ be paid to make security improvements. not too hard, but also not your           │
║ problem, so build it and then move on.                                           │
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
 audio devices
 
 and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
 everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
 so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
 playing video games or whatever.
 
 like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person
 is going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
 
 and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always
 picking fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to
 or whatever.
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 what if Trump controlled x% of the land (according to electoral college votes)
 and kamala controlled y% of the resources (according to popular vote) and they
 each could do whatever they wanted there
 
 the house and the senate in congress would function the same and unite the
 two, but anything the president disagreed with they could veto for their
 particular pieces of land and it would only affect their constituents.
 
 why should we settle for anything less than legitimate representation,
 unclouded by the division and spite?
 
 if some combination of presidential vetos created an impossible situation,
 then by law people weren't allowed to interface.
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║ I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it       │
║ should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by     │
║ painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural,       │
║ perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and       │
║ should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the       │
║ consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is       │
║ wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always    │
║ be leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the     │
║ next decade"                                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you   │
║ can cancel when                                                                  │

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 what if we made marketing part of research and development
 
 I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
 right?
 
 so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
 they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.
 
 frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50%
 to administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
 joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more
 productive than coffee-shops at noon?
 
 seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.
 
 unless it really is about greed? control? power?
 
 pfweh, I thought so.
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║ @user-1037                                                                       │
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║ those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho,    │
║ kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like,   │
║ in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers         │
║ include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too      │
║ perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more         │
║ engaging ways.                                                                   │
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║ they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some         │
║ people need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by        │
║ plugging their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu.   │
║                                                                                  │
║ Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for    │
║ most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like,         │
║ looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like    │
║ players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states     │
║ and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using.    │
║ Or m                                                                             │
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 What does "fiscal conservative" even mean?
 
 It means you want to save money. Specifically government money. Tax dollars.
 Don't spend them, instead try and build wealth.
 
 Okay, but, government spending is spent to address needs. Of the people.
 Ideally, of ALL people with that need. So if you aren't spending to resolve
 needs, the need still remains.
 
 When needs exist, and government does not resolve them, who steps in but
 private enterprise? Charity is a feeling, charity is a virtue, but charity is
 not resolution. The need remains, we just feel better about it. Sometimes it's
 okay to have open needs, they give us the opportunity to feel virtuous in the
 same way that low level monsters let adventurers level up.
 
 But when a government could, but doesn't, address a need, then private
 enterprise steps in. And private enterprise does not, as a rule, step in if
 there is no profit to be made. So they tune their approach such that profit is
 extracted, thus levying their tax upon those they serve.
 
 As soon as they are able, they cut the service down and they supply a worse
 and worse product and they starve their workers and they export our wealth to
 be used to enslave the afar and import their toil. What do we get from it? Is
 the world better for it? Why not just resolve the need by empowering those who
 can feed, and thus we are assured  [in our needless / in our need]
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 there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
 make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
 after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how
 are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually
 it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say
 something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP
 looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
 
 that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
 
 I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
 co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
 partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
 most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
 
 something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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