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"IS THIS THE DEATH OF ART?" Well art has died before. Art died in both the 1980s and 1940s. Art died in the industrial revolution. Art died when they invented the printing press. Art died when we stopped painting on cave walls. Art died when you, personally, stopped finger painting. You can absolutely be a hater though that's part of it

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My point is that there is a teleology—a theory about how intellectual property law must develop historically—hidden inside the argument I call the Internet Threat. The argument, which is touted endlessly by the content industries—and not without reason—can be reduced to this: The strength of intellectual property rights must vary inversely with the cost of copying. With high copying costs, one needs weak intellectual property rights if any at all. To deal with the monk-copyist, we need no copyright because physical control of the manuscript is enough. What does it matter if I say I will copy your manuscript, if I must do it by hand? How will this present a threat to you? There is no need to create a legal right to exclude others from copying, no need for a “copy right.” As copying costs fall, however, the need to exclude increases. To deal with the Gutenberg press, we need the Statute of Anne—the first copyright statute—and the long evolution of copyright it ushered in.

But then comes the Internet. To deal with the Internet, we need the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the No Electronic Theft Act, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, and perhaps even the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act. As copying costs approach zero, intellectual property rights must approach perfect control. We must strengthen the rights, lengthen the term of the rights, increase the penalties, and make noncommercial illicit copying a crime. We must move outside the traditional realm of copyright altogether to regulate the technology around the copyrighted material. Companies are surrounding their digital materials with digital fences. We must make it a violation of the law to cut those digital fences, even if you do so to make a “fair use” of the material on the other side. We must prohibit the making of things that can be used as fence-cutters—a prospect that worries researchers on encryption. In the long run, we must get rid of the troublesome anonymity of the Internet, requiring each computer to have an individual ID. We must make click-wrap contracts enforceable, even on third parties, even when you cannot read them before clicking—so that you never actually buy the software, music, movies, and e-books you download, merely “license” them for a narrowly defined range of uses. We must create interlocking software and hardware systems that monitor and control the material played on those systems—so that songs can be licensed to particular computers at particular times. Uses that the owners wish to forbid will actually be impossible, whether they are legal or not.

In other words, we must make this technology of the Internet, which was hailed as the great “technology of freedom,” into a technology of control and surveillance. The possibility of individuals circulating costless perfect digital copies requires it. It would be facile (if tempting) to say we must remake the Internet to make it safe for Britney Spears. The “Internet Threat” argument is that we must remake the Net if we want digital creativity—whether in music or software or movies or e-texts. And since the strength of the property rights varies inversely with the cost of copying, costless copying means that the remade Net must approach perfect control, both in its legal regime and its technical architecture.

James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, pp. 60-62

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For centuries, I've watched you fight to protect humanity, while forsaking your own kind. I will destroy you and everything you stand for, with a power you can't even imagine yet.

THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

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lol the lady who called me several extremely rude names during the great people inviting themselves at the collectively managed market crisis of last month tried to sweet talk me into giving her two bruschettas for the price of one and when i said are you kidding me (vous vous foutez de ma gueule) guess what she did

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When Dostoevsky said, "Pain changes you, but it teaches. That is its mercy." but Kafka said, "Pain changes nothing. It just repeats itself until you forget who you were before it started."

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everyone who thinks "social pressure to transition" is real has naturalised the social pressure Not to transition to such a point that they have become incapable of understanding that it's real and exists. "cis guy who likes wearing a skirt has been pressured into becoming trans :(" how about "trans girl who is in the middle of cracking her egg is terrified of being trans and you telling her that it's Okay to be a cis man in a skirt is unhelpful at best and open transmisogyny at worst". you do not see that 99.99% of the social pressure is in the direction of Staying Cis because it is only that 0.01% that feels unnatural to you

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someday there will be a generation of gay weirdos who don’t know about tumblr heritage. “what’s dash-con?” they say, as i cry into the shoulders of my three weed smoking girlfriends in grief at this loss, looking at the sky. god damn do i love the color of the sky.

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watched a migrating bee colony move into one of our (empty) beehives yesterday, really makes you appreciate how many bees can fit into a hive

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DAILYWORLDCINEMA’S 5TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT day 5: favourite costume design

Donkey Skin / Peau d'âne (1970) dir. Jacques Demy 🇫🇷 costume design by Gitt Magrini

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making art is actually abusive because you are manipulating the viewer into feeling something

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“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

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in fanfiction we must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

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Mushroom Playing Keyboard

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try not to unlearn all your shame in case there's something good stuff in there that you can sexualize

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It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

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A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original "anonymized people of the global south" tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals.