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we (or the next generation) will decide that it's in the better interest of society to embrace free sharing of ideas and reject the concept of owning informatio
by tkahn6 16y ago
we (or the next generation) will decide that it's in the better interest of society to embrace free sharing of ideas and reject the concept of owning information
Um... what? Can you clarify what you mean by "information"? In the Physical sense, everything is information. I know you don't intend to be that literal, but it sounds like you're proposing that we totally do away with property rights.
- marknutter 16y agoI mean anything that can be copied without destroying or removing the original.
- graphene 16y agoI don't want to speak for the parent, but in my opinion, there is a clean separation between matter (ultimately consisting of atoms) and the information embodied in the arrangement of those atoms (eg in a book or DVD disk). In this scheme, property rights would protect the atoms themselves, but not the information of how they are distributed. I don't know what it would mean to regard the atoms themselves, without reference to their surroundings, as information, as you seem to imply.