Quote:
Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Maybe not off topic, but certainly off the track and onto a path into the realm of metaphysics and wishful thinking.
|
How is the world created if not by thinking?
Quote:
Originally Posted by karunaji
Actually it is a good point about money. As we all know, money is not real. It is only a mutually agreed system controlled by few entities. And that system doesn't resemble anything fair or honest as we might commonly think about it.
If one can understand how money works then why is it not possible to accept that intellectual property may require new set of rules that are different from physical goods.
|
Intellectual property does not exist. Property requires something physical, or at least something that can only exist in once place at one time. The digital can exist everywhere at all times, therefore it can never be owned by anyone. Those who try and tell you that they own a piece of the digital (our shared collected knowledge) are trying to sell you something, namely that piece of knowledge...
