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0 pointslrvick1y ago0 comments

I truly hope Meta has a serious security issue that burns their company to the ground.

That said, I want them to burn for the right reasons.

Downloading data that should be available to the public is not one of them.

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Exactly. Everyone should have the right to have access to this.

Are you sure that everything should be in the public domain? Say you spend a year writing a book, shouldn't you be able to sell it?

lrvickOP1y ago

I have open sourced all work I legally can for the past 20 years, and it has only given me more exposure and made it easier for people to trust me with significant budget to solve their hardest problems.

Also I happily buy lots of books from people like Cory Doctorow and nostarchpress -because- their books are public and I want to support authors that value the freedom of their readers.

Books that are DRM or copyright protected however, I buy used paper copies or pirate because why would I financially support people that do not respect my freedom?

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rafaelero1y ago

They should sell for a price it would make pirating it pointless. Like what Spotify or Netflix did to audio and visual content. Then they can use the exposure to find other ways to make money.

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