Rusty Russell on Nostr: As a Free Software developer, I've followed expansion of IP law quite closely. "Home ...

As a Free Software developer, I've followed expansion of IP law quite closely. "Home taping is killing music", et. al.

The Internet turned a monopoly on duplication into a monopoly on distribution. DMCA created a ban on white-market copying assistance. The trend was all one-way: copying was harder, monopolies ossified and were further normalized.

Then the AI train drove through and ignored copyright. And, so far, it's ok. Nobody is going to shut them down, and they're going to get better at copycatting. So now there's actual competition to the monopolies.

Should be fun!