Re: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V3 #807

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

At 10:03 PM 9/1/06 -0400, Sethkimmel@aol.com wrote:
> ...
> > I hope humans will abolish the whole "intellectual property" concept as
> > greedmonger folly, and look back on current laws as a quaint and barbaric
> > time, but that's another story...)
>
> bet you'd whistle a different tune if you invented something and got ripped
> off...

No I would not.


> We need intellectual property rights. Like it or not this is a capitalistic
> society and most inventors are in it for the $; not because they are
> altruistic...
>
> My problem is with the greedy s#$@%$#d's who pervert/exploit the system...

The current system is becoming more and more obsolete, and it is the nature 
of information, and information technology, to make it so. The more trivial 
it becomes to duplicate and share information, the more artificial and 
wasteful the tyranny and abuse of the current system needs to be. See the 
next version of MS Windows. A new reward system for content creators is the 
solution, not machines that try to check ownership rights and track every 
transmission or replay of data.

PvK
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