rosenjcb

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[–] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The powers that be have done a great job convincing the layperson that copyright is about protecting artists and not publishers. It's historically inaccurate and you can discover that copyright law was pushed by publishers who did not want authors keeping second hand manuscripts of works they sold to publishing companies.

Additional reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

[–] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Because they care more about reliability, accessibility, and the ecosystem (don't discount the many many slack bots). Privacy is on the bottom of their list of concerns.

[–] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Use Wefwef for mobile.

[–] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It certainly does feel like it. I wonder how ads were inserted into the results and not marked as such.