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- Introduction
- Intellectual property is not property
- The Libertarian debate on Copyright
- Ayn Rand's defense of Intellectual Property rights
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This is the seventh part of the series “Legal or Illegal”. Please read that article first if you want understand the base of these arguments.
Boy this issue will give me some serious reaction from all the bloggers, and Ayn Rand fans out there. Though before I start, I must point most of the Libertarians, except for a few Ayn Rand fans oppose copyright. There are zillions of resources available for both for and against copyright. This post is not the best place to arm yourself for a debate against copyfascists.
That’s right, I call them copy-fascist. In the sense the way they pursue copyright violations. Take for example what kind of people Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) has sued recently:
- Single Moms
- Widows
- Grandmothers
- Dead People
- A woman with multiple sclerosis
- 12 year old Children
- Sued a Russian company for $1.65 trillion($1,650,000,000,000)
- People without computers
This one time RIAA sued a single mother of 5, and when she won, they sued her two children. But RIAA is not all bad, they are good too, for example once after learning that one alleged copyright infringer has died, the RIAA offered the deceased man’s family a period of sixty days to grieve the man’s death before they began to depose members of his family for the suit against his estate.
Not only that, MPAA(Motion Pictures Association of America) has supported police actions by putting political pressures on foreign govt to act against their own people. Hell Muslims couldn’t get Swedes to crack down on the newspapers which published Prophet Mohammad’s cartoons, but copyfascists have been successfully able to force Swedish govt to act against their own citizens for victim-less crimes.
Lets come on to the ideological debate on copyright.
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Freesoul Says:
June 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pmWhat actually is copyright and its violation-
Consider an education class. The lecturer provides knowledge about a subject, discusses various aspects of it. The students listens, analysis and understands.
Some students are interested in learning, and applying further mind, developing innovating knowledge, they remain attentive in class and provide their individual efforts for the development of subject and related knowledge. They pays their hardwork to it.
Other student who are not interested in learning and don’t want to put any hard work any effort, bunks classes, enjoys porns and videogames and never studies.
It is freedom of individual. If you don’t want to come in class, attend lecturers, learn study and pay your efforts to a subject, then it is your choice. you can surely enjoy your video games and porns. Nothing wrong in that.
But then comes the thesis time.
To provide a note, that this person under this standard education system (Obviously private or public whatever) has completed his effortfull study about a particular subject and has submitted his effortfull theisis analysis under this name.
Every student want it. that who was actually interested in learning and developing more, put up his hardwork, his mind, his intellect, and developed the theisis, and submitted it. He expects good grades and a recognition for his work.
On the other hand, the other students who never wanted to study, who never attended classes, who never applied their efforts and mind to understand and further develop the subject, now even they also want the profit of the Hardworker student who put up their effort in evolving knowledge.
So such theifs and marxists and leftist anarchist like the writer of this post, steals the hardwork of the honest genuinely devoted student. They hacks their effort and submits it on their name.
Like in a written test, some student comes up with their own efforts and studies and writes the paper, while some never learns, never do studies or any hardwork. They makes chits and copies, they cheats in examination room and copies from the hardworking students answersheet to get same marks as that student who did the hardwork.
These anarchists says that there is nothing wrong in cheating, in chitmaking in copying. and since they copied in their answer sheets, hence they should also get same marks as that of the student who really worked hard.
Because according to these anarchists, hardwork has no value, the effort of the innovator, the inventor, the knowledge developer has no value.
They want to legalize the cheating.
What they don’t understand is, if all will be allowed to cheat, why will any single body try to put real effort?
If the hardworker won’t be allowed to get any incentive for his hard work and his hardwork will be forcefully distributed by these anarchists to the other lazy and never working anarchist brothers, then why the hell wil he put any effort?
He will also stop working hard.
It is just similar to http://www.reasonforliberty.com/current-affairs/the-story-of-socialism-public-welfare-and-brain-drain.html
Jayel Aheram Says:
November 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pmcopyfascism 'kä-pē-fa,shi-zəm\ - the belief in a state-granted monopoly on ideas and information utilizing governmental power and coercion in breaching free speech and private property rights, and the forcible suppression of creativity and innovation.
I coined the term in 2006 (in Flickr in one of my first verbal salvos against the whole concept) when I realized that the entire copyright regime is nothing more than a collusion between big business and government. It is detrimental to creativity and innovation.
Stephan Kinsella is the forefront of this libertarian opposition to the misconception that intellectual property is somewhat akin to private property, when it in fact the former subverts the latter.
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