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Such a great anti-IP quote from Jorge Luís Borges (whom I consider the best fiction writer of the XX century) "If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader
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[quote user="Wheylous"] Are you serious? ... yes? *meep* Please explain. [/quote] Please read Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property, available for free on this website. It is 50 pages long and address your sloppy argument.
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[quote user="Clayton"] You'd be a damn fool to pay one penny for the Coke recipe. Clayton -[/quote] That's not really the point. Replace Coke by gold and tell me if it is not the intellectual work that is adding value to the second sheet of paper. [quote user="Aristippus"]In any case, he's still talking about trading
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[quote user="Wheylous"] I'm not (yet?) a complete believer in anti-IP, possibly because I can't explain libertarian's hypocrisy in the following: 1) Why and how do we have property rights? Well, we simply have them, chap! They're there and inherently present because we fashion stuff out of nature. 2) Intellectual Property?
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[quote user="Clayton"]Of course you are not entitled to profits from "intellectual work".[/quote] I didn't say one is entitled to profits from intelectual work, I said that there is nothing wrong trying to profit from them as long as you respect other peoples' properties. [quote user="Clayton"]You can charge people
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Subsidies don't increase consumption but taxation decreases consumption. That is some great logical reasoning right here.
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The cartoon that Nielsio posted employs the kind of hostility I was referring to, I don't even know why you are asking me that, as it is clear that whoever drew that cartoon thinks that people should be glad their work is being copied and profits are not a legitimate thing to expect from an intelectual work.
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Being anti-IP doesn't mean one should be glad that his work is being copied, there is no problem whatsoever if a video game company uses some DRM scheme that prevents people from copying its games, for example. I don't understand this hostility towards the very fact of legitimately (respecting the NAP) trying to protect an intellectual work
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Due to its inherently risky nature, one can logically deduce that a bank that engages in fractional reserve banking has to offer some extra benefits compared to benefits offered by full reserve banks to attract customers. With that in mind, I believe that if one is willing to accept the inherent risks of a fractional reserve bank and is also willing