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

[Michel Bauwens]

I do think that a major reform of IP, towards moderation, is a distinct
possibility, and can be carried and pressured for by a social movement, and
it has quite significant traction from many civil society players. It won't
be enough, but a step in the right direction,

Michel

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
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