anotheronebytes

it IS easier to go back than it is to guess what is coming

My question would be "who is able to NOT be tracked?"

What redeeming quality does copyright have in light of the intellectual damage and huge amount of unnessecary bureaucracy it causes?

it enforces the existence of a market of royalties dues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment

I agree, the digital technology changed things so much that it no longer makes any sense. but tell it you the king of the UK? (or some other country with "kqweeng")

because their real job is to preserve the knowledge, not innovate or invent new stuff.

but if academia is not the institution in charge of innovating, then which is it?

I'm still a bit confused about this. I saw it like a contradiction but do not know what to do about it.

PhD degree programs telling "come innovate" into the institutions whose real job is to preserve knowledge?

They’re pretty good at the second part I assume, the practice is as old as humanity itself

wrong. it's as old as civilization itself, yes. But humanity is not exactly the same as civilization

edit: so the numbers (of votes) say that I'm wrong, so humanity is the same as its civilization? wtf.