Reddit reviews Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

> The recurring point I took from this was that to not worry about "copyright" theft is to keep innovating your own products/technology. The big companies here in America aren't doing that for various reasons.

Check out Information Doesnt Want to be Free by Cory Doctorow. He talks a lot about DRM, digital locks and piracy.

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Have you ever read Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age by Cory Doctorow?

There are really really robust arguments to be made for why media should be funded by grants from the state administered by organizations of independent artists and distributed semi-freely to the populace like in the open-library model. It's better for a free, upstanding, and stable democracy. It promotes technology development, economic growth, etc.

There's no reason pirating content illegally and having ethical thoughts about a future society are incompatible.

Socialist democracy, my friend.