Scribit Marcus Brinkmann dies 01/09/2006 hora 18:20: > Note also that ownership in legal history has always been tied > explicitely to material goods. So, even if you assume that > information can be proprietarized, drawing analogies from legal > documents is not going to be very useful.
I agree on this, and I think the problem is that most of the rationale behind ownership rights is that the material good cannot be shared without losing something. If I give you my car, I cannot use it anymore. Obviously, if I give you a copy of Supertux, I can still play it as before. IIRC, Saint Augustine was already quoted about this some short time ago. I strongly agree with him on this point. I think most people didn't realize the implications of digital information on this. They still reason within the paradigm of material goods. Well, now that I reread it, I feel I'm probably saying something totally obvious to everyone here... Obviously, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A
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