From: Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co>
To: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pirate bay, w3m, and the interface is just an interface (BEST post ever)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:40:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2egs2k1ro.fsf@tilk.co> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141214082243.77ea5690@Yoda>
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com> at 18:22 on 14 Dec 2014:
> It isn't really stealing because information is not a scarce resource.
>
> The basic misunderstanding is in the fact that some people want to
> treat information as property, in the face of the fact that
> information is not a concept that can be treated in such a way.
>
> The entertainment industry have based their business model on the
> mistaken idea of treating information as property, and now they are
> trying to save it from collapsing by the propaganda that copying is the
Um, the basic misunderstanding is that in society we pay for both goods
and services. We call this "work." The scarcity comes from the finite
nature of human life.
History has been full of groups who use their majority to arbitrarily
strip the rights away from a minority. They had ways of rationalising it
away too. Just be sure of who you're aligning yourself with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-14 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-14 0:46 pirate bay, w3m, and the interface is just an interface (BEST post ever) Emanuel Berg
2014-12-14 1:57 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 5:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 5:45 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 8:22 ` Marko Vojinovic
2014-12-14 9:40 ` Paul Rankin [this message]
2014-12-14 14:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-14 15:08 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 18:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-14 18:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-14 19:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-14 14:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-14 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.16023.1418550049.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-23 5:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-14 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:03 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 15:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-14 15:25 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-15 8:30 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.16063.1418578427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-14 17:54 ` Rusi
2014-12-14 15:22 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 14:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-14 14:39 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-14 16:08 ` Rasmus
2014-12-14 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.16048.1418567978.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-17 21:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.16020.1418545381.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-14 9:02 ` Rusi
2014-12-14 9:43 ` Paul Rankin
2014-12-23 5:39 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.16043.1418565713.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-23 5:59 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.16017.1418535962.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-23 5:36 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.16010.1418522266.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-22 22:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-24 13:52 ` Glen Stark
2015-03-25 0:54 ` Emanuel Berg
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