> Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation.
Do you honestly believe that our current copyright framework is mainly aligned at maximizing incentives for knowledge creation?
This sounds absurd to me. From my point of view, the copyright framework has been shaped (by continous lobbying efforts) into a system to maximize extraction of profits from existing IPs.
That is very different from incentivizing "knowledge creation", because the lions share of income is spent on overhead or distributed to shareholders, with the "knowledge creator" (i.e. author), getting <20% of each sale. Furthermore, the mechanisms to balance income are ALSO abysmal (to maximize knowledge creation incentives, it would be necessary to "overspend" significantly on "young" writers, enabling them to feed themselves at the start of their careers).
> weaponizing copyright law violation on behalf of the vilest dictatorship on the planet.
How is Annas archive weaponizing copyright violation? How is it furthering Putins interests?
Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation.
Even more reasonable people are objecting to weaponizing copyright law violation on behalf of the vilest dictatorship on the planet.