All of these are uniquely worse than the current system for the artists, though. Again, I agree that copyright should be abolished (or that copyleft should be enshrined in law), entirely, for all forms of media (including software). I just think it's important to realize that there are classes of people for whom the existing circumstances are better for. Acknowledging that a change will disadvantage or make circumstances materially worse for people is important.
Livestreaming and live performances and merch creation are all vastly different skillsets than making music in your bedroom, and some musicians are only really good at that part.
I am anti-copyright, but I think you're considering this through the lens of a computer scientist/rocket engineer instead of someone who's had to work a worthless desk job or wait tables or paint houses.
As someone who recently (and probably unsustainably) got out of the cycle of worthless jobs and knows a handful of musicians, here's my perspective:
Indie (and indie label) musicians can actually do fairly well with recorded music. No, they won't be rich. Middle class is at most the target, usually under. Live in a third-tier city and have few expenses. You don't need to sell very much for a baseline livable state.
$10000 a month isn't an achievable target for most working artists. $800, on the other hand, is, even without touring. Sell a handful of Bandcamp copies, sell a few physical copies (cassettes are best for this in the current moment, being cheap to produce and having a fairly loyal audience), have your back catalog do well enough on streaming.
$800 is enough to live on, if you're living with roommates. In many ways, living with $800/month and no unfulfilling 40hr job is much better than living with $1800 and an unfulfilling 40hr job. Even if you don't want to live with roommates, it cuts the amount of work for an employer you have to do by a great deal. Working low-skill work is soul-crushing.
For authors, from what I understand, this baseline is even more achievable. If you have no hopes of getting rich, the current copyright system is fine.
> What do you mean? And can you provide some clear examples?
On top of the things you listed?
Genital mutilation is common and accepted. Sex trafficking is common. Politicians are extremely nepotistic. Politicians are Haskell programmers. They outright murder people convicted of certain crimes. Conversion therapy is legal. Children are not allowed to view content with LGBT people in it. That's just scratching the surface; it is similar to the UAE in that it gets an unreasonably high HDI spot for how few human rights and how little decency it actually respects.
Swiss banks largely don't exist in the way they did in the 1990s and prior because of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (an American regulation almost universally agreed to be overreaching and violating the sovereignty of other countries); privacy is only guaranteed to Swiss nationals, and they automatically share information with external governments. These days, if you want to be secretive about your banking but park assets in a stable country, you go to Singapore.
If you read the article, he notes that after he retires, he's got a book on Haskell he's going to read. He retired from the Prime Minister position earlier this year. His aspiration is becoming his reality as we speak.
Singapore as the benchmark for "competent local government" seems flawed. Ignoring decades of corruption incidents[1], it's also plagued with human rights abuses, including significant volumes of human trafficking[2]. As a nation-state, it's still extremely enthusiastic about draconian punishments and the death penalty. The state is full of moral decay; worst of all, its former prime minister is reading about Haskell in his semi-retirement[3]. The latter example of moral decay is not unique to Singapore (he is not the only senior national government official to decline into Haskell usage in Southeast Asia), but it is not a good sign of national health.
There are better "canonical examples" of competent local government, like Zurich, Geneva, or Vienna. All of which are generally rated higher in HDI than Singapore, none of which have the death penalty, and none of which have government officials who are Haskell programmers.
Barely related, but do you have advice for someone who wants to work on a very specific project at Google? I'm not at the point of hireability yet, but in the long-term I want to optimize my chances to get hired to work on AndroidXR. Should I just put my effort into writing tangentially-related open source projects? Should I be trying to grab positions at similarly-focused companies first? I don't really care about optimizing for comp, and I don't even really mind if I'm only contracting and not at Google proper, I just very specifically want to work on that project.
So that's why he would never pass forum administration to the other guy. For anyone who's caught by surprise, you should look at his portable Gamecube.
Could you change the name? Since there hasn't been a release yet, it would break nothing, and there's already a project (that you also started, but that is used by more people, since it is released software) that was named Freenet, that would probably like its name back.
East Asian wars tend to be drastically more deadly than the wars of any other group. The Three Kingdoms War wiped China's population to 30% of what it once was, and had half the deaths of WWII in a world with two hundred million people instead of billions.
It's Dedoimedo. The entire point of Dedoimedo is whining loudly about whatever gets reviewed. If he stopped complaining about things his audience paid him to complain about, they would stop paying him enough money for overpriced vehicles that he then could complain about in an overly-braggadocios manner.
Easter weekend is arguably the best weekend to do something like this. It's not an actual holiday, so there are none of the normal precautions taken around bank holidays (bank vaults tend to have a lot of the money moved out around bank holidays), but much of your staff (and external forces, like cops) will be away outright or preoccupied.
It makes the entire thing far more seamless, and gives you a better window to get away with it.
Livestreaming and live performances and merch creation are all vastly different skillsets than making music in your bedroom, and some musicians are only really good at that part.