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At 11:46 AM -0700 on 8/31/00, sunder wrote:
> This is the same arguement I have against the DeCSS injunction. Once I
> have the media, no matter what format it is in, I should be able to do
> *ANYTHING* I wish to do with it
<Quoted deliberately out of context for brevity ;-).>
Agreed, but I would also add, "including selling it".
As I like to say, in paraphrase of what others(1) have said many times
before me, if it's encrypted, and I have the key it's my *property*.
Plug that, and internet bearer cash transactions, into Coase's theorem,
and everyone makes more money, including, oddly enough every intermediary
between the artist and his markets on the internet.
Just about the only people who get "hurt" are the lawyers, or, more
properly, legislators...
Bits for sale on the net shouldn't require a "license", period. In fact,
eventually, "should" will not have anything to do with it, the economics,
not to mention the physics, of digital commerce being what it is...
Cheers,
RAH
(1) See many people on this, not just my "geodesic recursive auction"
glossalalia :-), but, certainly before that, Eric Hughes' "universal
piracy", the Agorics' folks "digital silk road", and probably many before
those even...
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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
