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A Message to a Friend Explaining My View on Intellectual Property

June 11, 2008 – 10:03 pm

I think that IP is one of the largest issues going and to make it worse, people don’t know anything about it. IP is used to create artificial monopolies, like MLB saying people can’t disseminate the facts (which are currently not part of IP) of a baseball without authorization.

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Where is Capitalism Anyway

July 2, 2007 – 9:33 am

The concept of the free market is that those who can’t survive in business are pushed out of the market, however through intellectual property management any company that has established itself can remain on artificial life-support by abusing the system through lawsuits that either give failing businesses a cut of their competition’s income or by blocking that competition altogether.

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Ten Things I Hate About Comandments

June 22, 2007 – 10:06 am

The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) are trying to make it illegal to copy a DVD in anyway, in fact they don’t even want people to playing a DVD movie without the DVD in the drive.

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Electric Slide part 2

March 6, 2007 – 10:29 am

It isn’t important because the electric slide is a dance that we all need rights to (I would gladly wave that right if we can abolish the dance step from all history), but because the precedent that will be set.

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