[ExI] intellectual property again

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Thu Mar 4 16:10:40 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com>
>>
>> I'm firmly on the free side.
>
>> I want to offer a longer perspective
>
>>
>> The short version:
>> We are increasingly and will eventually entirely *be*
>> information. If
>> we allow ownership of information, we eventually lose
>> ownership of
>> ourselves.
>

### I don't understand. Shouldn't it be "If we forbid the ownership of
information, and if we are information,  then we forbid the ownership
of ourselves."? Without IP we will have, among others, no defense
against unauthorized copying of us (i.e. making of slave copies).

Rafal



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