Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180819/11241040465/funniest-most-insightful-comments-week-techdirt.shtml

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mason Wheeler with a response to Nintendo's takedown of major ROM sites and one professor's comments about the importance of libraries and archives:

This is exactly right, and it reaches well beyond games; it's a massive problem throughout the software industry. Because we have a copyright regime that incentivizes closed-source software distribution, we end up with essentially the only medium in all of the creative arts or engineering disciplines where the development techniques of a masterpiece cannot be studied because they can't be known.