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Some interesting technical details about BTs future blocking of Newzbin2. Worth a read.
A republic of letters and how copyright today is a far cry from what it was intented for...
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When publishing instructions on how to make a lightning rod in Poor Richard’s Almanac, he also refrained from noting that he was the inventor. And he never sought a patent for it, because he had drawn on a common stock of knowledge and felt committed to “produce something for the common benefit.”
The same attitude lay behind Jefferson’s description of knowledge as “common property.” It pervaded the entire Enlightenment, when men discussed experiments and ideas in correspondence networks and a chain of academies that extended from St. Petersburg to Philadelphia. Above all, they communicated their thoughts through print. Letters, learned societies and the printed word came together in the creation of a Republic of Letters, an egalitarian world of knowledge open to everyone — at least in principle, although in practice it was restricted to a literate elite.
Simon suggests replacing Intellectual Property with Intellectual Priviledge. Brilliant analysis of IP and the terms (ab)use. A must read.
excellent!
privacy an illusion in P2P networks?
"The doctrine says that the sale of an invention exhausts the patent-holder's right to control how the purchaser uses it."
weak attempt at a strong agrument. there already exists much written on this, so no need for such watered down musings.
response to Hank Williams' uniformed post about how if we don't have copyright we are alll doomed, morally and economically.
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