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@nixCraft Remember that copyright is not a natural right and is a government enforced monopoly. You have no god given right to a copyright assignment, and it is a privilege granted to you for a limited amount of time so that you publicly release your creative work and can derive profit from it.

@JoeBecomeTheSun @nixCraft neither is private land. Naturally your territory or land is literally the land you can keep people and other animals out. There are no such things as "natural" rights. I also don't like intellectual property, but it is stupid to say that any property is a real thing different than a social construct that was created so people don't kill each other for land.

@SkyLuke @nixCraft The difference between tangible property, such as land versus intellectual property is that when someone pirates a media, no one is deprived of their copy, but rather a new copy has been created. When someone takes your land from you, you are deprived of your land, thus land and possessions are much more real then intellectual property. The right to own property is a very real natural right, intellectual property is not. I do not buy the social construct argument because social constructs are very real. Yes, society is a social construct we agree on, but it is still real in the sense that society had laws and norms we follow and our human activity as part of this social construct has a very real impact on the world. Our society has dug canals and laid thousands of miles of railroad, built large factories and corporations, built roads and bridges and even landed a man on the moon. Just because something is a social construct does not mean that a social construct is not real in the sense that land, rocks, water, steel, sunlight and possessions are real.

@JoeBecomeTheSun @nixCraft Fair point. Social constructs are totally valid. But they are not the natural state of things. I agree that intellectual property is ridiculous. I don't agree with your argument to explain why it is ridiculous.

@SkyLuke @nixCraft I disagree, a nation state is the logical conclusion of human beings living and working together in like minded communities. The modern concept of intellectual property infringes the founding principles of our country. There is no real justification for copyright laws lasting for 95 years other than corporation do not want to take risks and develop new media instead of just releasing reruns, sequels, prequels and supporting media based on what already is successful. Society would be richer and a better place if the abuses of the patent system were curtailed, the effective technological measures provision was repealed and copyright lasted no longer than 10 years.

@JoeBecomeTheSun @nixCraft Yes, I totally agree with everything you said in this last toot. I just don't agree with the vision of natural rights as I don't think any right is natural. They are very important, but all rights are social constructs based on our sense of morality. Intellectual property is just inefficient and bad for society the way it is. But I am not a total absolutist. I think companies should get 10 years to recover their investment and profit when creating drugs, for example.

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haha genius

@riley @nixCraft many thousands of pixels were included in the training set

@Emily_S And even more subpixels! @nixCraft