Victoria Antoinette

I expect to have more options on my ballot than that

copying isn’t stealing

I’m not sure you want to rely on Patreon in any case, since it also relies on the retention of rights for profit. In your scenario, when they upload to Patreon, anyone involved could tell them to get fucked and pay the author nothing.

anyone could do that now. people still get paid.

Exactly, and since it certainly follows a long tail distribution, the rest of the 250,000 creators on patreon make a tiny fraction of that. For the vast majority of people, it doesn’t provide a primary income.

this is true for the vast majority of storytellers and artists and musicians through all of history.

any time it has worked proves you are wrong. the top 50 patreons clear over $100k a year

only one person would need to be able to live on either model to disprove your claim. since that has definitely happened, you’re definitely lying.

you claim they are not feasible, but we know people do get paid through them, so you’re just lying.

you recognize two well known cases where copyright is not necessary to get paid. I don’t think there is even an argument at this point. have a nice day.

I didn’t say that. you’re making a leap of logic

the law does not say it is theft.

your attacks on my identity don’t undercut my claims at all.

people made art, music, and stories long before copyright

this doesn’t address what I said at all.

stealing removes something. copying makes more of it. it’s not theft

authors should have no say in how published works are used.

that’s how I feel about people blaming others for Israel killing kids.

everyone already opposes Israels aggression. releasing hostages won’t have any impact on that

Israel can stop agressing right now. your insinuation that I’m not even human is disgusting.

I’m telling you that the goal you think releasing hostages might achieve has already been reached. it’s like saying Israel would be able to hold gazans in an extermination camp, walls and everything, if hamas released the hostages. that shit is already happening.

Israel is responsible for it’s own soldiers killing Palestinians. no thing anyone else does changes this.