From: Felix Ungman (felix@hu.se)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 05:41:53 MDT
On torsdag 28 juni 2001 17.15, Alex F. Bokov <alexboko@umich.edu> wrote:
>Natural rights stem from animal territorial instincts, which in turn evolve
>when an animal is able to protect resources at a cost less than the value
>of those resources to an animal. You do NOT have a natural right to that
>which you cannot plausibly defend, and I have yet to see a robust scheme
>for defending intellectual "property".
It is possible to write a contract that states that you may listen to my latest symphony in return for one dollar, but not replicate what you heard (or pay damages of $1000). I may choose to have anyone sign that contract before listening to it. Or I have the power to keep the symphony for myself - unheard by noone but me. So far we have to rely on legal means to defend this kind of "property". And in most jurisdictions copyright is a default agreement in situations like these.
Copyright laws is also related to personal integrity. You shouldn't be allowed to take my symphony and call it your own, nor distort it and claim it's still a work of mine.
>At any rate, common good, individual good, ethics, justice, etc. have
>nothing to do with my position in the intellectual property debate. I
>have the opinion that open content materials have a selective
>advantage and we have three ways to respond-- adapt; fail to adapt;
>rely on government to postpone the time when we will have to either
>adapt or fail.
Regardless what happens to IP, we'll surely see an adaption toward stronger technical protection of software and media content. We've seen it already with sattelite/digital TV. There's no longer an obstacle to require online registration for software (in fact it's becoming integrated in the download/install/upgrade process). The bandwidth is now sufficently high to make make you want to prefer streaming internet media (instead of download).
Eugen* Leitl wrote:
>There is no tragedy of the computational commons. In an agoric environment
>like MojoNation (not fully debugged yet), you get paid for your resources,
>and have pay for other people's resources you use.
It looks promising, but it's not something that's widely spread today. I haven't tried it yet (still waiting for the Mac OS X version - yes I admit, I'm an open source bastard!!!). From what a gather from the FAQ it's merely some kind of logistics trading network. How do I sell my symphony for mojos?
/felix
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