I agree that huge steps like scrapping IP protection are currently unthinkable for the EU to take. But as Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) writes, with the Trump manufactured crises that are likely to come (tariffs etc), the unthinkable might actually happen:
"Friedman had an answer: 'In times of crisis, ideas can move from the fringe to the center in an eyeblink. Our job is to keep good ideas lying around, in anticipation of that crisis.'"
joosteto
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2025-03-04 13:12:12 UTC
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