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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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Efforts to use technology to police copyright evolved into companies using copyright law to lock people out of repairing their own devices.
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    It’s also total bullshit how they can just film in a public street and include anyone that happens to pass by in their movie without paying them, in fact they won’t even warn you if you’re about to walk into a shoot and definitely won’t respond to requests to remove your face if you end up in the final movie. But as soon as a famous person’s face gets shown they demand royalties and can even force people to destroy footage of them.

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    So what they’re saying is VCRs ruined everything.

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      … Or video killed the radio star?

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      TIVO KILLED JOHN DEERE AND A CAR

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        criminal consumers who blatantly copied artistic Creations and shared them with their accomplices

        waow-based

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        Lol /$?

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        Right, because that’s obviously destroying content-creation jobs while AI scraping is somehow great

        /s

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    Great article. I highly recommend Corey Doctorow’s book called ‘Enshittification’ for more on this phenomenon

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      This isn’t really enshittification, though. People used to always have the right to self repair. That right got curtailed once it became a threat to profit margins.

      This is a law issue.

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        more like a capitalism issue

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          private ownership caused the issue? so you dont see this happening if the government was in charge of everything?

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            enshittification would be a non issue without the profit motive.

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        If you read the book, the post will make much more sense

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          The book is a deep dive into intellectual property law?

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