[ExI] Pirate Party

Antonio Marcos amcmr2003 at yahoo.com.br
Thu Jan 24 15:01:47 UTC 2008


--- Kaj Sotala <xuenay at gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Jan 14, 2008 8:49 PM,  <odellndc at aol.com> wrote:
> > taxpayer and the courts. A better system would be
> for inventors--who
> > naturally have a large incentive, when there is
> demand for their product but
> > high contract enforcement costs--to evolve
> technologies that prevent
> > contract violation. Barbed wire did this for land
> use control (better
> > excludability); the movie, music, and software
> industries would be much
> > better served by investing in technologies to
> restrict their products to
> > only licensed users--rather than suing their
> customers and calling them!
> 
> Technologies which will never work. If a customer
> can replay a
> product, he can also make a copy of it. (This is
> most trivially seen
> in the case of music: if you can hear it from your
> speakers, then you
> can always take a microphone and record that sound
> to another system,
> no matter what the protections on the original
> system.)
> 
> Copyright laws don't really work in the Internet
> era, nor are they
> needed. There are plenty of ways for artists to make
> their living even
> without copyright, and even if they weren't, open
> source and other
> similar movements have shown that people these days
> have enough time
> to create art and useful products even without being
> paid for it. It's
> time we started dismantling the copyright system.
> 

I agree with you.. "which fact makes copyright
legislation in truth a bit of a sick joke on
education"[1].

It can be best for the industry, but ultimately
disastrous for society. What would happen if some evil
genius invented everything and then copyrighted it.And
worse, proceeded to tuck everything under his/her
ivory tower, while watching if anyone is infringing
his 'rights', and prosecuting if so. I bet some
'monopoly' law would be used against him/her.. 


Mark

[1]http://home.ramonsky.com/stuff/icmm/ch11.html


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