So, my usual way of responding to a really long thing is to kind of go through it line-by-line or page by page, and that’s difficult to do with a YouTube video unless I were to make a full-on response video and that’s not really a thing that I do.
So, like, his first major argument is that in a no-IP world we can still have popular creations because of crowdfunding, and he cites Star Citizen as an example of this. There’s a lot of cheap shots, like how his choice of example is Star Citizen (a game famous for not existing), or how he says that “popular” things can get made and doesn’t seem to think about this will change art (by meaning only stuff that plays it safe or appeals to a trend can get made, and that you have to know exactly what you’re making before you make it and can’t “find the fun” etc etc etc), but the bigger issue is that none of the examples he cites as the ways no-IP works in the real world are possible under no-IP. Kickstarter is often a form of pre-sale, where you back the game and get a copy. That trade doesn’t function if the game is free and can’t be restricted. Neither is Patreon where you get comic pages early or get secret bonus content etc., and Star Citizen....I mean, for fuck’s sake Star Citizen raises absurd amounts of money by selling rich libertarians spaceships that Star Citizen not only owns, but can delete/nerf/whatever at any time, and that this funding model is a huge part of why Star Citizen is so famously unfinished. Star Citizen is Giga-IP.
But this dude mostly talks about how this would change the way art is made my kind of alluding that it’ll get rid of the SJWs on or whatever (honestly the thumbnail for the “Why Pewdiepie is the most underrated streamer” video on his YouTube page is probably enough to know what he’s going to say in the video right there) , and how artists will be able to get popular “fixing” other people’s art instead of making their own.
The entire video is very myopically focused on how going no-IP will make popular existing franchises have cool fanfiction. And the problem he’s focused on solving is so fucking myopic. The big upside for No IP is that anyone can make a Star Wars movie. But - and this is very important - anyone can make a Star Wars movie right now. You just can’t call it Star Wars.
Roger Corman made a Star Wars movie
There was a Star Wars TV show that became a franchise in its own right.
Even Toei made a Star Wars, with literal Samurai in it!
Star Wars: Giant Robot Edition.
You want to make a Street Fighter game with more blood?
You wanna go the other way, and make a My Little Pony fighting game?
Wanna make a Star Trek show based entirely on the popularity of its showrunner letting him make a weird passion project?
And, like, this doesn’t mean that IP law in the United States doesn’t suck and that corporations holding IP rights forever and ever and ever is a good thing, it really isn’t and copyright duration needs to be dramatically reduced. But if you you think IP law is the reason you don’t like certain things, watch less Pewdiepie and read a book. Then maybe your next 45 minute video about a policy change will be able to cite a single fucking source on literally anything at any point.
But hey, the gimmick is clearly working for the dude. I’m glad for him that he’s earning $800/month of Patreon to not make a webcomic until he hits $3200/mo. Respect the hustle. Get that bread.
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