Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.
While I don’t think he should have been charged in the first place, the way people were doing calculations with the charges was funny math. They were adding up the maximum possible punishments, which is just not how things work for a first time non violent offender who had no financial interest. I wouldn’t be surprised if those “decades of prison time” turned into community service with some parole.
DOJ basically killed him for doing proto-scihub stuff
Yeah they overcharged him thinking he’d take a plea. Kinda standard but fucked up, too.
yeah it’s almost like the entire criminal legal system is fundamentally corrupt and only serves to enforce existing power structures.
Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.
The entire political & economic systems are built to serve and enforce existing power structures.*
While I don’t think he should have been charged in the first place, the way people were doing calculations with the charges was funny math. They were adding up the maximum possible punishments, which is just not how things work for a first time non violent offender who had no financial interest. I wouldn’t be surprised if those “decades of prison time” turned into community service with some parole.