From: Giu1i0 Prisc0 (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 00:38:23 MDT
The trend is that the evolution of technology makes it impossible to enforce
any IP rule. Now we have free music and movies on the net with P2P systems
like kazaa, we are going to see more and more of it. Books are more
difficult to put in electronic format, but that will also come.
How authors can make money then? A very non-libertarian position: perhaps
creative production of literature music and movies should be recognized as a
public utility and compensated with TAX MONEY.
> What do you think the Extropian position should be? Should there be
> one? How would one go about measuring extropy in this context?
>
> BTW, the libertarian position -- not assuming Extropians must always and
> everywhere march in lockstep with it -- is quite clear: there are
> libertarians both for and against intellectual property.:) (Of course,
> there are many different reasons given to defend either stance...)
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