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one of the most unforgivable things about current copyright law is that it makes any attempt to carry the torch of a dying cultural sphere into a new era de facto completely illegal. there's no way to preserve stuff but to severely, repeatedly, undeniably intentionally break laws
https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01JC5NWRBMT90585HN3WAPWHAZ
i am normally somewhat restrained in what i say on this topic due to the delicate position of [founding and maintaining a one-of-a-kind game emulator project] but i also can't really be held liable for pointing out the obvious here, right? right? do NOT ask me what i mean by this
i go very far to avoid openly encouraging or flirting with breaking the law. i will not tell you to break it. i do not even mean this in a "haha and then what ;)" way. seriously, do not break the law because of me, do not act like i did not tell you this, do not imply that you read my "real" message
but i can be blunt with you: if nobody out there breaks the law, cultural history as we know it simply doesn't exist. that's a very depressing fact of the world. and you can draw whatever conclusions you want to from that
when i say i want a pluricentric world, one of the things i mean is that society as we know it, all that is beautiful in the world, cannot survive if all laws are consistently enforced to their full extent 100% of the time. there Must exist an entire world in the gray area
and i think this might actually be my strongest single political belief: that the world must be "tolerant" in some way, and that the optimal number of broken laws is not zero.
can you imagine what a fucking tragedy it would have been if drugs actually ceased to exist when they were outlawed?
do you think that, at a stroke of a pen, a powerful man should be able to define away an entire category of human experience? i don't! i will never believe this! even when it's a very, very unpopular opinion to hold. in the limit this includes such things as "murder should exist"
@saagar yeah