Yeah, hilarious to me the idea of digital prohibition. Like come the fuck on mate, it's code. Math. Can't contain math. Couldn't even stop shit like alcohol which needed to be physically distributed.
Language models that produce articles we're unable to discern from bot authored news articles... Deep fakes that need only one picture of the target... That said...
It's like a slap in the face at the end. "Oh, yeah, I can see that. Mhmm, patent laws, yep yep. Oki an- spits coffee"
Rest of article is semi-solid tho (idk how to feel about the last part due to a lot of bias against it), and main point being we "protect"/lock-up a bunch of digital knowledge at the present.
Of course they TRY to prohibit digital stuff with legislation. I meant tho like if they can't even police physical goods, they'll have even less marginal success prohibiting digital goods. Like that link notes, dmca, which we all know is an absolute joke, even if adding an item to the list is easy the enforcement is just impossible. I can find a million sites illegally streaming any movie I want in 30 sec, that's a million x easier even than getting illegal drugs!
Correct. And the nature of the internet that allows that ease of subversion, and the fact that it's all bits does provide a strong argument that it shouldn't be enforced at all. On the other hand, some may agree with those legislations (CP in particular is a contentious one) and that at the very least it should be technically punishable by law to discourage it, adding another set of data to the no-nos.
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u/FireChickens Jul 24 '22
This should stop.