Anti-Memetic Poison
I found this arty thing today that I thought was utter genius… and was going to post it here, link to it, spread the word etc…
…but then I read deviantart’s copyright policy which is as nasty a piece of anti memetic poison as I’ve ever read. It reminds me of the legal letters that the Pirate bay get… the arrogance of ‘ownership’ eh?
Well fuckem. I’m not interested anymore… maybe it’s what their members want and expect etc, maybe they’d respond by saying they have a thriving community, but this memetic emasculation is… well, just that. It would be far more interesting if there was some sort of chain of descent kept in the metadata of an object… a bit like what Aviary do with their Visual Laboratory app as mentioned in the last post.
The mean-fisted, heavy handed, walled-garden, threats-of-lawfare approach that the copyright cartels, and deviantart take is a calicified relic from the previous century.
Sad. It’s a waste of good memetic DNA.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
shelley noble
Yeah. Freely sharing is the better way to greater expansion of art and ideas and ultimately fame and wealth, the fools. Like Kevin Kelly says, make money from the generatives not from the product itself. Duh.
Dec 21st, 2008
Reply to “Anti-Memetic Poison”