[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Kevin Carson]

On 2/5/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> you are assuming  an enormous amount of 'ifs' which have little short term
> chance of being adopted at all, (i.e. "remove all forms of state-enforced
> artificial property and artificial scarcity")

Well, sure.  But abolishing copyright law, which has been the main
source of contention here, is itself an enormous "if" with little
short term chance of being adopted at all.

So in advocating for such an enormous and unlikely change, I may as
well go whole hog and discuss the broader elimination of all forms of
artificial property, to the extent that other forms of artificial
property would exacerbate inconviences resulting from the abolition of
IP.

And in fact, I doubt the laws will ever be formally removed until
they're a moot point anyway.  My main interest is in promoting the
forms of technological development and counter-organization that will
render all forms of artificial scarcity unenforceable.  And in that
regard, I think the unenforceability of one form of artificial
scarcity will have synergistic effects in making the unenforceability
of others more beneficial.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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