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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses::Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Legitimately fuck modern copyright and patent law.

Whilst we're forced to endure capitalism, a short copyright of 5-10 years on art is beyond reasonable enough. Maybe 2-3 years on technology & chemical patents for the truly novel inventions, i.e. only if no public funded research forms the basis of the patent (nearly all pharmacy R&D is just rebadged academic research. Clinical trials should be funded by public money before anyone goes there).

No entity deserves the exclusive rights to any idea for anything close to the duration we currently allow. It only stunts progress.