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On impoverishing: If you have one apple and you give it to me then I have one apple and you are left with nothing. If you have an idea and you share it with m
by d0mine 18y ago
On impoverishing:
If you have one apple and you give it to me then I have one apple and you are left with nothing.
If you have an idea and you share it with me then I have the idea and you have it.
Information is not oil.
- modoc 18y agoIf you farm apples, and apples have a monetary value, you can provide for yourself and family by farming apples. If you create ideas/code/art/music, and IP has a monetary value, you can also provide for yourself and family by creating those things. If "information wants to be free", then I have to farm apples all day, and only create IP (if I'm so motivated) for free, after dinner and before bed. I'm all for sharing ideas/IP if you want to, but I totally support people's right to sell or keep ideas/IP if they choose to. Do I think the RIAA/MPAA are generally immoral parasites? Yes. The solution isn't downloading songs and movies from RIAA/MPAA labels and trying to pretend you're doing something other than sneaking in the backdoor of a concert or movie theatre. The solution is buy from indie artists.
- dantheman 18y agoThe concept of not having intellectual property doesn't mean that you can't still sell your ideas, it just means that you can't control what someone else does with them. You can keep your idea to yourself or trusted individuals, but there is no reason to expect a monopoly on an idea.
- modoc 18y agoFar fewer people could make a living producing and selling IP (music, movies, books, code, etc...) if the first person they sold it to was free to either give it away or sell it for 50% of what they'd paid for it.