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Intellectual property is the Inquisition of our times. Hopefully things will turn for the better and people of the future will see our outlawing of non-commerc
by nova 14y ago
Intellectual property is the Inquisition of our times.
Hopefully things will turn for the better and people of the future will see our outlawing of non-commercial sharing of data as one of those stupid things the troglodytes of the 21th century did. But IP will die a slow and ugly death.
- mattdeboard 14y agoI suppose we should be grateful that your foolish hyperbole didn't compare IP to the holocaust.
- jlgreco 14y agoDo you similarly object to comparisons to "witch hunts" (such as perhaps The Crucible) if people are not actually being crushed or burnt alive?
- mattdeboard 14y ago"witch hunt" has entered into cliche much like "foot of the stairs" or "roof of the mouth"
- jlgreco 14y agoThe play The Crucible was not a cliche... The play was an allegory comparing the blacklisting of actors for suspected communist sympathies to the brutal humiliating executions of innocents for the invented crime of consulting with the devil. The fact is that metaphors and allegories do not necessarily suggest the magnitude of compared incident are themselves comparable. Attacking such comparison for having an imbalance of severity is intellectually bankrupt. Reading suggestions of absolute equivalence into them is to not read them as an adult interested in mature conversation; but rather argument.
- mattdeboard 14y ago> The play The Crucible was not a cliche... I didn't say it was. I said the phrase "witch hunt" is a cliche. "The Inquisition" isn't a cliche. "The Salem Witch Trials" isn't a cliche. "The Holocaust" isn't a cliche. "witch hunt" is a cliche.