File sharing is god.
From wikipedia, but I thought the issue needed highlighting for some of the heretics.
Some libertarian critics of intellectual property have argued that allowing property rights in ideas and information creates artificial scarcity and infringes on the right to own tangible property. Stephan Kinsella uses the following scenario to argue this point:
[I]magine the time when men lived in caves. One bright guy—let's call him Galt-Magnon—decides to build a log cabin on an open field, near his crops. To be sure, this is a good idea, and others notice it. They naturally imitate Galt-Magnon, and they start building their own cabins. But the first man to invent a house, according to IP advocates, would have a right to prevent others from building houses on their own land, with their own logs, or to charge them a fee if they do build houses. It is plain that the innovator in these examples becomes a partial owner of the tangible property (e.g., land and logs) of others, due not to first occupation and use of that property (for it is already owned), but due to his coming up with an idea. Clearly, this rule flies in the face of the first-user homesteading rule, arbitrarily and groundlessly overriding the very homesteading rule that is at the foundation of all property rights.[36]
Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813:
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."[46]
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The guy that patented the house would have no claim against galt's log cabin. design. His case would be throw out of court.
I do not acknowledge intellectual property, hence there is no wealth to redistribute.
I put intellectual property in the same boat as religion.
The guy that patented the house would have no claim against galt's log cabin. design. His case would be throw out of court.
It was an example of how retarded the idea of intellectual property is.
I do not acknowledge intellectual property, hence there is no wealth to redistribute.
You don't need intellectual property to have intellectual wealth. Capital != wealth.
Music, literature, language, air, environment, outer space, physics, science, your mind, emotions, dreams, passion, family, love, society, all of human history ... wealth far more important, and far, far more influential than petty capital.
And you, my dear socialist comrade, want to redistribute it, to share it, to abolish private property so that all can take part of the collective wealth. To take from those who have, those who created the wealth ... and give it to those who don't have.
Oh, btw, I don't acknowledge capitalism nor private property, so there is no wealth to redistribute. Huh, guess I'm a capitalist after all!
I do not acknowledge intellectual property, hence there is no wealth to redistribute.
You don't need intellectual property to have intellectual wealth. Capital != wealth.
Music, literature, language, air, environment, outer space, physics, science, your mind, emotions, dreams, passion, family, love, society, all of human history ... wealth far more important, and far, far more influential than petty capital.
And you, my dear socialist comrade, want to redistribute it, to share it, to abolish private property so that all can take part of the collective wealth. To take from those who have, those who created the wealth ... and give it to those who don't have.
Oh, btw, I don't acknowledge capitalism nor private property, so there is no wealth to redistribute. Huh, guess I'm a capitalist after all!
It's not redistribution or taking, it's copying.
You can't steal ideas, if you want to retain ownership then no one can copy without your consent.
I suppose it's typical of a socialist to only understand the words: redistribute/steal/take.
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Physical property rights stem from the idea one owns him or herself, anything else is slavery.
You can only be owned by consent, hence it's not slavery.
One can always refuse.
It's is the same if a robber says "Give me your wallet or I kill you", you say no, he kills you, he may get your wallet, but he was not able to own you.
You were born free. You rendered yourself property, and will die as property. You are a slave.
You were born free. You rendered yourself property, and will die as property. You are a slave.
Unfortunately an illusion of physical property is necessary as long as humans are imperfect.
It's about control over the internet, I think it was tuoni who posted that video which showed how the same companies which bitch about file-sharing made it so popular in the first place.
Keep trying tuoni, sure you'll come up with something soon.
It's merely a trojan horse for censorship, always has been, from the church to the book publishers to the MAFIAA today.
lifetime + 70! ought to be lifetime + 10
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Physical property rights stem from the idea one owns him or herself, anything else is slavery.
pretty sure when physical property rights came into existence it was about the same time as slavery. so that kinda disproves your idea there...
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Physical property rights stem from the idea one owns him or herself, anything else is slavery.
pretty sure when physical property rights came into existence it was about the same time as slavery. so that kinda disproves your idea there...
A human cannot be a slave, a human can refuse at any time.
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Physical property rights stem from the idea one owns him or herself, anything else is slavery.
pretty sure when physical property rights came into existence it was about the same time as slavery. so that kinda disproves your idea there...
A human cannot be a slave, a human can refuse at any time.
Any concept or construct which can be artificially restricted, with exclusive privilege, to specific individuals and/or groups is property. A form of tyranny which stifles innovation and creates artificial scarcity. The privileged haves, and the unprivileged have-nots. Property is theft. Property infringes upon the personal right to take part in and utilise all of the wealth created -- be it individually or collectively -- to the fullest of your abilities. Property is a form of elitism to control society and the individual, to dictate who has the privilege of joining anointed circle, and who does not. It is a form of tyranny, where only the anointed have the means of shaping and guiding the future of humanity.
A system of oppression; by the few, for the few. A theatre stage where you hold all the roles.
No, I reject your tyranny.
Physical property rights stem from the idea one owns him or herself, anything else is slavery.
pretty sure when physical property rights came into existence it was about the same time as slavery. so that kinda disproves your idea there...
A human cannot be a slave, a human can refuse at any time.
By refuse I mean refuse to obey the would-be master.