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Another take on IP
Author: Andrew Duncan Posted: 9/2/2000; 11:10:41 PM Topic: Another take on IP Msg #: 20753 Prev/Next: 20752 / 20754
To paraphrase Engels, "a sufficient quantitative change may lead to a qualitative change."Regarding IP, there a couple of related quantitative changes underway on the internet:
The number of nodes on the network is increasing rapidly The amount of information available to those nodes is also increasing rapidly To suggest that these changes will not lead to a radical reshaping of society and its laws is, to say the least, a questionable proposition.
How then would you expect "theft" to be defined, morally and legally, in say twenty years?
It's obvious, I trust, that I'm just floating a balloon here... don't think that I'm a dot-commie just because I'm quoting Engels. :o)
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