On: All web "content" is freeware

[sublinear]

In a world where physical media is no longer relevant and everything is on the internet, what the hell is "web content"?

[the_other → sublinear]

> In a world where physical media is no longer relevant

Debatable. IMO print is the best medium for long-form written and grapgical narative work.

Streaming media can’t be lent and is locked up by excessive and arbitrary (from the consumer’s PoV) rights leveraging.

Given physical media is declining, yet more functional for its archive potential, Imd say it was now more relevant than ever.

[latexr → the_other]

I think you may be interpreting the word “relevant” in a different light than the person you’re replying to.

It reads to me as if you’re saying physical media is important for humanity as a whole and the preservation of knowledge, while your parent comment is saying physical media is no longer significant to individual consumers because it’s not their preferred method of consumption.

Both connotations can be true at the same time.

[BlueTemplar → sublinear]

Literally everything isn't, and will never be, but I agree with your gist.

Also note how 'content' is corporate-speak (they especially like owning the platforms hosting it) :

https://craphound.com/content/Cory_Doctorow_-_Content.html#1

[semanticc → sublinear]

Internet != Web. E.g., an ebook downloaded from Apple Books is not web content, even if it comes from the Internet.

[jsheard → semanticc]

Until that eBook inevitably gets uploaded to a piracy site. The implication is that if a web crawler can find it anywhere then it's fair game, regardless of provenance.