Monopolies of the mind: front page
Ideas were inexhaustible and free until people caged them in. It's time we opened the cage.
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Intellectual monopolies are not property, and duplicating them is not theft, part 2
- A longer explanation of what property is, why intellectual poverty (the proposition that one may morally prevent others from duplicating intangibles) is false, why duplicating intangibles is not theft, and how the intellectual poverty lie came about.
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Intellectual monopolies are not property, and duplicating them is not theft
- A very quick primer through the ethics of property.
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The struggle for property rights and free intellectual creations is already lost
- This Congressman's letter in relation to the SOPA law is proof.
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Surveillance
- The Faustian bargain of our era.
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The HDCP master key: game over, HDMI digital restrictions management
- Why? Simple: using this key -- the secret piece of the puzzle -- people can now build hardware and free software compatible with HDMI, that can decrypt the encrypted video traversing between HDMI-compliant equipment, without having to obey the restrictions imposed by the HDMI oligopoly. Game over -- pirates 1, digital restrictions management AACSholes 0. One more note: using this key might be illegal in some parts of the world -- but whoever cares about what's right can't afford to care about what's legal.
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Oh, so you care about the artist?
- Well then, let's see what you're doing about it!
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How intellectual monopolies are barriers to entry that stifle business and trade
- Many people claim that patents and copyrights are not barriers of entry to the market. That's wrong.
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What makes Microsoft a monopoly?
- Hint: it's not their market share in the PC software market.
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Possible mistrial in TPB case
- Judge in charge of deciding whether they were guilty or innocent, member of a corrupt lobbyist organization in favor of putting peaceful men in prison.
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The monopolist propaganda machine is in full swing
- Here's a stellar example of how the propaganda machine works.
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I'm sorry, I cannot hear what you're saying over the noise of your hypocrisy
- Clown Lars Gustafsson toes the corrupt party line, has the audacity to demand "free speech".
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On four good men being ordered into cages
- No respect. No quarter. No surrender.
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Not everything you work for, you own
- Intellectual property defenders talk about the fact that you "created your idea" or "put labor in your invention" as the reason why they own these ideas and inventions. They are wrong.
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Intellectual monopolies are not property
- When we discuss copyrights and patents with others, there's always someone who insists that they are forms of property. They are not, and here's why.
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Multitouch screens are now off-limits to innovators
- Apple patented several key aspects of using multitouch screens.
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Downloading is not stealing
- Hint: if you get to keep the original, then you can't use the word "steal".
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The real problem with patents
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Google AdSense has censored me because of the HD-DVD key
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Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster
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On Lawrence Lessig switching 'majors'
