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You said: Presumably if there were a free market in ISPs, this wouldn't work. You might have wanted to say "competitive market" or "perfectly competitive marke
by rw 18y ago
You said: Presumably if there were a free market in ISPs, this wouldn't work.
You might have wanted to say "competitive market" or "perfectly competitive market", not "free market". A free market is one in which laissez-faire is the only rule, and monopolists and oligopolists are not a priori bad.
- kragen 18y agoYes, you're right; the market would merely have to be somewhat competitive, not some ahistorical wet dream of Hayek. Regardless of whether monopolists and oligopolists are good or bad in general, I was only trying to establish that in the presence of oligopoly, the RIAA's strategy would be very bad, and in the absence thereof, it would be ineffectual.