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I'm interpreting your view as property only applies to physical things or abstractions of physical things. Is there a name for this theory? I'd say I subscribe
by greysphere 4y ago
I'm interpreting your view as property only applies to physical things or abstractions of physical things. Is there a name for this theory? I'd say I subscribe to the labor theory or property and it's interesting to think about this from another perspective.
There's a couple cases I'm having trouble with. For example, is an ip address property? Seems so because it represents a physical scheme about the routing of ip packets. Similarly an email address or physical address seems like property. If any of these were replicated/spoofed by someone else, they would disrupt the ability to physically route whatever (bits, packages). Ok.
But then what about trademarks? In some ways those are 'pull' addresses - I go to the store, and buy a Coke and I'm expecting that thing labeled Coke to be the physical product I expect, not some spoofed version of Coke. But that label and what not is just a picture, and the original picture wasn't harmed in any way when the spoofed version was created. Is this concept just not allowed and we accept that inefficiency? Or maybe trademarks are allowed as property because they represent the physical concept of the systems the Coke corporation has put in place to create and produce Coke.
But if that's the case, then what about a non-trademark painting? If I go to the store and see a painting by an artist I like, and want to support them and the physical systems the went into generating that painting, and not be spoofed should that be supported?
(Though maybe all this could be solved with a QR code or DOP label or something. Though somewhat inconvenient to have to robustly check that all the time).