Re: pirate bay, w3m, and the interface is just an interface (BEST post ever)

[Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co>]

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.