Re: Information & Power /Copyrights

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon May 10 1999 - 07:13:18 MDT


david_musick@juno.com wrote:
>Is it absolutely essential that people
>believe in the fictional concept of "property rights" in order to
>interact productively and peacefully?

In the real world, yes. Numerous groups have tried to eliminate property
rights to create this wonderful utopia, and have pretty well proven that
it's impossible. Communism works in small family/tribal groups, but fails
horribly when attempted on a large scale. At the same time, trying to
create property rights where they can't reasonably exist -- e.g.
copyright on electronic media -- fails almost as badly.

    Mark



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