Jeffery Trucker’s article on Against Intellectual Monopoly book sure did stirs a hornet nest.
Now the Pro-IP guys are in full force accusing the anti-IP crowd of being socialists. LOL! I also find their lack of reading comperhension disturbing.
Also, why is it that the blog have a different population than the people at the forum? In some case, I noticed a bunch of miniarchists. Is there some sort of inivisible wall?
Over the past year that I have posted here, anarchism seems to have become the default in the forums; most of the top posters are now anarchists, for example. There used to be far more anarchism vs. minarchism debates. I would guess that the minarchists stay mostly on the blog comments.
It’s one of those debates that irritate me because many of the participants are overly emotional about it. Plus the pro-IP side has the delightful delusion that it’s anti-socialist…
It is quite annoying that they lament that the artist or programmers, or inventors, for that matter won’t be able to make a living in a world without IP.
My rebuttal is that they suck at entrepneurship and imagination and that they’re frankly quite ignorant of current real world examples of business models that doesn’t relies on the enforcement of IP.
Their ignorance is not even about the level of “there are seen and then there are unseen”. They can’t see at all!
Yeah, when I started here, there were a lot of Ron Paul Republicans. Most of them became anarchists or left.
I think the forum requires membership to post. Blog commenting usually is one of the lowest forms of internet communication, just above instant messaging and irc.
I have a theory that the more credentials one is required to provide, the higher the quality of the content, but also the lower the diversity of opinion.
I’m not a total anarchist
Might be new topic worthy, but why? I know when I was first here, I resisted embracing anarchy, using the excuses that I didn’t know how so many things would work out in an anarcho-capitalist society. In reality, none of us can know. My turning point was when I realized that what we had right now already doesn’t work, so why would I hold onto a system that I know is (1) unjust and (2) ineffective?
Good point as you seem to always make but I am still pondering it, and have not come to a final decision of what I would call myself.
Yeah, I think everyone has to come to it from their own perspective and reasons. I know it was a few months before I really felt comfortable calling myself an anarchist, and even then I still had reservations. And even this current position is subject to change. I don’t think I can necessarily go back to accepting a state, but I’d be foolish to believe I now have ALL of the answers…
yeah I often wonder what they have to say about the videogame industry. They’re constantly sued by companies who’s only purpose is to create a patent on some vague idea then sue businesses that are doing the actual work of selling the product. What if one were to patent videogaming altogether? Or different genres of videogames? I wonder how ridiculous the industry would look(if it would ever be able to become an industry) afterwards.
How canAllstate(correct me if I am wrong) trademark the phrase “I’m There” I mean come on lol
Don’t you mean the software industry?
In the meantime, they’re now asking me to elaborate business models in a world without IP in minute details. I don’t have the energy for this today.
It is very tiring when you’re repeating the same thing you said six months ago about IP and the business models that operate without the need for IP. The burden of proof should really be on them, not us IP skeptics.
Agreed. The burden should be theirs to bear.
I realized that I was an Anarchist when I came to understand that every single law is a perversion of the natural way of things.
Let the burden fall on the “radicals” that want to change the world…