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Re: Intellectual Property Question
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Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:58:16 GMT
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richard marchetti wrote:
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> Welcome to 20 minutes into the future, people. Copyrights are dead. Patents
> are dead. IP is dead. Digital means infinitely reproducible.
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> And as William Gibson has observed: "the street has its own uses for things."
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> It's not a matter of what is right or wrong, legal or illegal -- it's just the
> way it is and is going to be for quite a while.
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> Couple P2P with the encrypted anonymous sending and recieving of information and
> the game is over. All they can do is throttle the bandwidth. They probably
> won't be able to tell what you are getting or sending.
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> You are merely observing the process of the beast in its death throws. You can
> still hear its angry cries, but soon it will be silent and still. Give it time.
I kind of agree with this. The question is how will the world proceed?
What new mechanisms will arise to encourage artists to produce? I see a
slight potential of a period of time where the availability of new art
plummets. Another question is what damage will this do to the economy?
Will software development stagnate as software developers seek other
work because they can't earn any money for writing software (since the
moment you publish it, everyone who wants it has made themselves a
copy)? What will the effects of the collapse of large companies be? How
much worse than Enron would the collapse of a big software company be?
How many pensioners would find themselves with no wealth?
Frank
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| Yeah, those are all good questions... Capitalism is dead too, though. I have given it long and serious thought and there's a very good reason that Roddenberry never really investigated the economy of the future in Star Trek -- the main thing is that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Welcome to 20 minutes into the future, people. Copyrights are dead. Patents are dead. IP is dead. Digital means infinitely reproducible. And as William Gibson has observed: "the street has its own uses for things." It's not a matter of what is right (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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