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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And if you don't know the difference between surveillance in the interest of national security, and security to prevent simple theft, you have no hope of understanding my point.
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Simple theft? To quote Lawrence Lessig in
The Future of Ideas:
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In the context of intellectual property, the general problem is magnified by another blindness, the error induced by thinking of intellectual property as property. By simplifying the nature of the rights that IP law protects, by speaking of it as property, just like the ordinary property of cars and homes, our thinking is guided in a very particular way. When it is viewed as property, we see endless arguments for strengthening IP and few for resisting that increase.
This is not conspiracy. It is a cultural blindness. We have forgotten what the Framers of the American Constitution knew about the nature of IP, and hence we have lost the balance our Framers had in protecting IP.
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