If you're fine with a mod that's online like twice a month then sure, lol.

Yep, that's completely fine. PhpBB doesn't have a feature for automatic subforum creation, but I'm simulating subreddits on it. Anyone can request their own subforum and they're free to be as active or inactive as they like. I just have to make one manually.

I actually thought my post was quite rambly tbh.

Actually I mean that Theramintrees is an outspoken guy.

One is mostly about patent law and how it fucks up the life of everyone, the other is a long af video about why he thinks the concept of "intellectual property" is bullshit, why copyright is bullshit, how they lead to abuse, how monetizing creativity can work without copyright and how it's ALREADY been proven to work (he's talking about crowdfunding). I don't exactly agree with everything he says, I think he misses the point that creators themselves treat their creations like property or children and they themselves want to remain in control of those things, with copyright or not. And also the aspect of respecting the creator by not making derivative works of lesser quality. If you ask me I think copyright has a tiny bit of validity. Of course not in the current form, what we have now is insanely corrupt and works directly against everything the original laws were set up for. But my reply is long enough, that's a topic for another time. Oh, also his 2 videos "you SHOULD pirate anime" are great too. They're like prequels to those later ones, he got most of his ideas and motivation from arguing with anti-piracy copyright bootlickers and proving his points by organizing a massively successful crowdfunds thus completely shitting on the copyright loyalists.

I'll check them out. A lot of bands are benefiting from their work being pirated, and Arctic Monkeys gained their initial following from them giving CDs away for free. I'm not sure it works this way for every medium, though. I'm not sure if copyright is even a matter of being either valid or invalid. I think it's simply a choice based on the values of the people. What's disturbing is how inorganic the specifics of the current system have developed. The duration of copyright was lobbied for so Disney could milk Mickey Mouse, and the MAFIAA exist to protect the interests of the rich and they're coming after people in quite an aggressive way. I agree with you, though: even though I'd rather live in a world without copyright than in this one, I'm still open to there being limited room for copyright laws. It's the same with patents: the current system where you have patent trolls could never have been the intention, but the essential idea behind it isn't a bad one.