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Inefficient Knowledge Creation

What to do about the cheapness of making digital copies of books, music, movies, scientific papers, etc is an open problem. Concluding that therefore we need them to be funded involuntarily is absurd. For one thing, a libertarian society will have courts with standards of conduct similar to present day laws (unless and until they have an even better idea that actually works), so copyright can exist just as well as with government. And for another, pointing guns at people is hardly a solution to funding and is a recipe for funding things that should not be funded. Also a recipe for people being shot or scared.

-- Elliot Temple
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by Elliot Temple on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 06:35

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