Hello everybody.

- Maybe this is a good example why we should go back to dialup days and
still use bbs's.

Understanding SOPA and copyright laws in the context of liberty.

    Remember that battle over SOPA, in which the worlds largest websites
beat back a congressional threat that would have changed the Internet
forever? It was pretty obvious within a day after this Pyrrhic victory that
the existing laws in place were enough to give the government the power to
wreck the digital world. But how would it happen? How would government end
digital freedom? Well, the excuse is obvious. It is intellectual property.
This phrase serves the same purpose for would-be censors that terrorism
does for warmongers. It is a way to ramp up government control while
kicking sand in the faces of those who would oppose such control. Are you
for terrorism? Are you for theft? Its rather easy to detect normal theft.
One day, I have a planter on my porch. The next day, the planter is on your
porch, and it got there without my permission....Now imagine a different
scenario. One day, the paragraph above appears on the website for Laissez
Faire Books. The next day, it appears on your Facebook page or blog. But it
is not thereby removed from lfb.org. Instead, it is copied. A second
instance of the paragraph has been created, taking nothing from me. My
paragraph still exists. And lets say this happens 10 billion times in the
course of a few minutes, as can happen in the digital world. Is this a case
of mass looting, or is it a mass compliment to me? Copyright law sees this
as theft. But how can that be? The whole merit of the digital world rests
on the remarkable scalability of everything digitized. Thats the basis of
the economy of the Internet. Its capacity for inspiring and achieving
infinite emulation and sharing is unparalleled in history. Its what makes
the Internet different from parchment, vinyl or television. Remove that,
and you gut the unique energy of the medium. Intellectual property law
became universal only about 120 years ago. It was gradually expanded over
the course of the century, invading the digital realm in the 1980s and
expanding its coverage ever since. How do you make copies illegal in a
medium that specializes in its capacity for sharing, multiplying, linking
and community formation? You need totalitarian control.

- from
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2012/03/isps-are-hirelings-for-police-state.ht
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Matt

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