• Gray@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Does this mean “shittification” and “enshittification” mean the same thing like “valuable” and “invaluable” mean the same thing?

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        Cory Doctorow is clever, but nobody ever said he was smart. I remember being at a talk where he said the original point of Napster was to sell music and I did a double take. Like dude, you lived through this, how did you already forget?

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          He’s not completely wrong. The founders set it up as a company, so the aim was to make money somehow, and venturing into selling their services was likely the next logical move