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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

... Delete... all... IP law?

So... just literally make all piracy legal, switch all gaming and tv show and movie production/consumption... to an optional donation model?

Fuck it, why not.

I am both an avid pirate and have a degree in econ, wrote papers as an undergrad on how to potentially reform the DMCA... and uh yeah, at this point yeah no one has any fucking idea how any thing works, everyone is an idiot, sure fuck it, blow it all up, why not.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Abolish IP for billionaires… not for the poor.

[–] Sizing2673@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah except you know it isn't going to be that

They're going to go "yeah but not like that"

They'll just remove consumer protections and make it so you own even less and if you try to fight it, you'll have the full weight of the court system to make you poor

Is musk supports it, that's exactly what he's hoping will happen. The rich will be able to take advantage of it and the poor will either stay the same or get worse

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

This, he means abolish IP Law in terms of consumer protections.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

also jam in there protections for AI training so they don’t have to deal with those pesky rent-seeking “authors”

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Free for people that already can afford anything.