I'm a musician and I write software, you don't need to preach to me about this. Record sales are indeed dead but there is no chance they'll come back at all without copyright or something like it. Also that doesn't invalidate copyright anyway. Copyright is also an important part of performance, for example the laws about what happens and what royalties you get if somebody else covers your song and profits from it.
Free and open source software is completely dependent on copyright to work, so that's a terrible example.
You can advocate for copyright reform all you want but you misunderstand who you have to please when you do that. It's all those lobbying groups. There's no other groups who would be invested in reforming copyright law. The "quality" you're advocating for here is completely subjective and not up to you or me to decide, even moreso when you try to dismiss all these things that millions of people actually like as "cultural garbage".
> You can advocate for copyright reform all you want but you misunderstand who you have to please when you do that. It's all those lobbying groups.
Or we can simply acknowledge that the whole system is rigged and continue to ignore the laws and get as many people to understand that piracy is the only reasonably moral alternative?
Free and open source software is completely dependent on copyright to work, so that's a terrible example.
You can advocate for copyright reform all you want but you misunderstand who you have to please when you do that. It's all those lobbying groups. There's no other groups who would be invested in reforming copyright law. The "quality" you're advocating for here is completely subjective and not up to you or me to decide, even moreso when you try to dismiss all these things that millions of people actually like as "cultural garbage".