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?

> so humanity is the same as its civilization

It’s pedantic, as others point out. But it’s a fun derailment, and I’ll argue yes.

Humanity is not the same as being biologically Homo sapiens. What it means to be humane is inextricably linked to the bonds of society. (And that’s before fun hypotheses like bicameral mentality [1]. Granted, in the same folder as the one-electron universe.)

More fundamentally, using force to get something you want is as old as carnivorism, older than humanity, civilisation and even mammals.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

Or maybe people just see the comment as needlessly pedantic, adding nothing of value to the conversation.

Are you a bot, or did we just happen to say almost exactly the same thing within seconds of each other?

Given that your comment ID is two higher than mine, you must be the bot, or I am a bot that can predict the future ;) But yes, I was also amused by the almost-identical phrasing.

You're being downvoted for being needlessly pedantic while adding nothing to the conversation. This is not reddit. Things work a bit differently around here, so lurking before posting is suggested.