> Copyright maximalism is a bad look on a site called "Hacker News." Perhaps other sites beckon.
Frankly it's more of an insult to the "hacker" name to be apologising for big companies profiting off of frontrunning existing work for PR purposes, if the claims about piggybacking on human-directed efforts/prompting are true.
Being pro-copyright in order to protect the work of an individual from being reconstituted into the corporate machine is VERY hackery. Novel use for an existing tool, to fight the dominant system.
(Of course, we're on a so-called "hacker" site hosted by a company run by squarely-establishment individuals acting in an extremely un-hackery-field (investing), so the irony here has been at least one layer deep since the start.)
This is the literal opposite of progress: stealing from people genuinely creating, and stealing the money they should earn
Funny, the stuff that was stolen is still there. A strange kind of theft.
Copyright maximalism is a bad look on a site called "Hacker News." Perhaps other sites beckon.
> Copyright maximalism is a bad look on a site called "Hacker News." Perhaps other sites beckon.
Frankly it's more of an insult to the "hacker" name to be apologising for big companies profiting off of frontrunning existing work for PR purposes, if the claims about piggybacking on human-directed efforts/prompting are true.
Being pro-copyright in order to protect the work of an individual from being reconstituted into the corporate machine is VERY hackery. Novel use for an existing tool, to fight the dominant system.
(Of course, we're on a so-called "hacker" site hosted by a company run by squarely-establishment individuals acting in an extremely un-hackery-field (investing), so the irony here has been at least one layer deep since the start.)
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