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<p dir="auto">but I’d argue this is only because alternatives have been too effectively suppressed by the sociopaths benefiting from the status quo.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Can you talk about what are those effective alternatives that have been suppressed you are referring to as a replacement for the current IP scheme?</p>
]]></description><link>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23084181</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23084181</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:52:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:50:48 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Do you want kids watching it too?  How about Bluey throwing Nazi salutes or Paw Patrol using racial slurs?  Even worse if you were looking to buy a legitimate cartoon for your kid, there would be nothing to tell you which you were buying.  Anyone could claim full ownership of these characters and sell them doing horrible stuff and nothing you do as a parent could protect your kids unless you first bought each, then watched it yourself, before your kid watched it.</p>
]]></description><link>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23079121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23079121</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:50:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:45:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Copyright prevents the KKK from producing and selling Pokemon cartoons with Pikachu supporting stupid shit like white supremecy propaganda. Are you sure you want that protection gone?</p>
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<p dir="auto">YES I want to watch the KKK Pokemon cartoon with Pikachu in a little robe and hood</p>
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<p dir="auto">The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Intellectual property is a term that wraps a whole bunch of things (copyright, trademarks, patents).  Are you fully aware of the impact how abolishing all IP would negative affect society?</p>
<p dir="auto">Copyright prevents the KKK from producing and selling Pokemon cartoons with Pikachu  supporting stupid shit like white supremecy propaganda.  Are you sure you want that protection gone?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Lets just take the patents portion of IP for a moment.  The first part of what you're asking for here is exactly what patents do.  To have something patented, the patent holder has to fully document the machine/process/method to create the patented item.  This is that mechnism that enables the "more known and used".  Society gains this knowledge because the owner fully shares it.  A design patent can last for only 14 or 15 years (depending on filing date).  The longest type of patent (Utility) lasts only 20 years.  After as few as 14 years everyone can use this knowledge without any fees/restrictions/payments.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is a be-careful-what-you-wish for situation with what you're asking for here.  There are companies choosing NOT to file patents anymore and simply keep their methods secret.  Since they methods aren't patented they are under no obligation to ever share them publicly.  There is a very real chance that many of these technologies/methods may be unknown to society at large for long after the term of normal patent protection would have expired and society would have been able to use the knowledge.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>EDIT:  I was trying to think of a good example of a company that agrees with your stance about not patenting and I remembered one.  Elon Musk is choosing not to patent SpaceX rocket engines because it would force him to document how they work.  Instead they are just keeping the designs secret.  So your desire to not have patents used are advocating for what Elon Musk does.</strong></p>
]]></description><link>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23078679</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23078679</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:47:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:11:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">The notion that ideas need protection from competition is foundationally caustic. The current regime incentivises locking them behind exclusionary and extractive mechanics as if they’re finite, when they’re intrinsically the opposite.</p>
<p dir="auto">I can see how ‘IP’ can appear appealing, if not justifiable, but I’d argue this is only because alternatives have been too effectively suppressed by the sociopaths benefiting from the status quo.</p>
]]></description><link>https://isurg.org/post/https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24687936</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isurg.org/post/https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24687936</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[nonentity@sh.itjust.works]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:11:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:46:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I can see the purpose when done correctly but that would mean maybe a 3-5 year protection to give you a headstart on the competition not 20+ years of monopoly and stagnation.</p>
]]></description><link>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22608477</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22608477</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[pyr_pressure@lemmy.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:46:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:20:39 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.</p>
<p dir="auto">Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.</p>
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