Koen Hufkens, PhD
Koen Hufkens, PhD  ·  2 months ago
Finished the "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation " by @pluralistic. Necessary reading in this day and age, for a few reasons:

1. It introduces the concept of universal computing devices really well
2. and in this context how (internet) technology underpins societal and justice movements, stifled by software copyright "wrappers"

In the context of the former it also shows were we are headed IMO.

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#privacy #copyright #software #opensource #enshitification #technology

Koen Hufkens, PhD
Koen Hufkens, PhD  ·  5 months ago
Academia has a collective action problem.

"Instead, they all hold one another hostage, through a wicked collective action problem that holds back science, starves their institutions of funding, and puts their colleagues at risk of imprisonment."

Glad this was covered by @pluralistic

#academia #publishing #publishorperish #copyright

@academicchatter @academicsunite

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  6 months ago
Once you learn about the "collective action problem," you start seeing it everywhere. Democrats - including elected officials - all wanted Biden to step down, but none of them wanted to be the first one to take a firm stand, so for months, his campaign limped on: a collective action problem.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​  ·  6 months ago
@pluralistic For those who like academic treatments, Mancur Olson developed the economic theory of collective action in the 1960s, with an essay and later book, "The Logic of Collective Action":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

Book at the Internet Archive / Open Library: https://archive.org/details/logicofcollectiv00olso

Who of course are fighting their own collective action battle against copyright absolutists:

https://blog.archive.org/tag/controlled-digital-lending/

#MancurOlson#CollectiveAction#InternetArchive#CDL #ControlledDigitalLending#Copyright#CopyrightAbsolutists

ErosBlog Bacchus
ErosBlog Bacchus  ·  7 months ago
Quote of the day, from Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic):

"The same thinking that causes progressives to recklessly argue in favor of upload filters also causes them to demand that web scraping be treated as a copyright crime. They think they're creating a world where AI companies can't rip off their creation to train a model; they're actually creating world where the Internet Archive can't capture JD Vance's embarrassing old podcast appearances...."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law

#AI#LLM#IP#Copyright