Dennis Hackethal
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#1368 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoMaybe? Kinda? Not sure.
You don't get to use your knife to aggress on others, that much is clear. So perhaps this can be understood as a right of others to do certain things with your property.
Right, like preventing you from murdering them.
Some people abuse the letter of the law to violate the spirit of the law, but that doesn’t mean the corresponding laws are bad per se. Those are problems, errors that can be corrected.
The comment has since been removed.#1363 · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days agoSo if someone publishes a blog post falsely but believably accusing you of being a pedophile and then all your business partners stop talking to you and you lose all your money and your friends and family ghost you, you wouldn’t want to have any legal recourse?
So if someone publishes a blog post falsely but believably accusing you of being a pedophile and then all your business partners stop talking to you and you lose all your money and your friends and family ghost you, you wouldn’t want to have any legal recourse?
#1359 · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days agoTake someone’s reputation. That isn’t a ‘scarce’ thing yet it’s a good thing there are laws against defamation.
Reputation is scarce in the sense that it’s limited.
#1346 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoThe issue is scarcity. Digital money is also scarce since you cannot double spend it. If it wasn't scarce, it wouldn't be money and neither would it be private property.
Take someone’s reputation. That isn’t a ‘scarce’ thing yet it’s a good thing there are laws against defamation.
#1335 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoIntellectual property is a contradiction in terms because information isn't scarce the same way that private property necessarily must be.
Duplicate of #1346.
#1346 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoThe issue is scarcity. Digital money is also scarce since you cannot double spend it. If it wasn't scarce, it wouldn't be money and neither would it be private property.
Imagine living on a flat planet that extends infinitely in all directions.
Land is not scarce on this planet.
You build a house, mixing your labor with an acre of land. Someone comes and takes your land, saying you have no cause for complaint since land isn’t scarce.
See how scarcity isn’t necessary for something to be property?
#1354 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoI don't care about current law, there are lots of dumb laws. I care about what's right and why.
It’s right for the law to address and prevent the arbitrary, and that’s about more than just property. See #1345.
#1354 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoI don't care about current law, there are lots of dumb laws. I care about what's right and why.
But the law against murder isn’t a dumb law even though it doesn’t refer to someone’s body being scarce property.
#1352 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoNo. I don't expect to find it, but that doesn't make it less true. That's how I make sense of the difference between IP and real property.
If current law isn’t based on what you claim it’s based on then that does make it less true.
Ridiculous definition of murder. Classic libertarian thought bending over backwards to reduce everything to property rights. Please cite a legal text where the definition of murder invokes scarce property.
#1343 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoThat could be happening though, so agreed that it isn't a good argument.
I do expect innovation to suffer from current copyright infringement, yes. Just add up all the infringed copies being shared times the average price, that’s the damage being done and it discourages creators from creating more.
#1341 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoMurdering someone destroys their scarce property (their body in this case). Copying something using your own property leaves the original totally untouched.
Ridiculous definition of murder. Please cite a legal text where the definition of murder invokes scarce property.
#1346 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoThe issue is scarcity. Digital money is also scarce since you cannot double spend it. If it wasn't scarce, it wouldn't be money and neither would it be private property.
But digital money isn’t physically scarce like someone’s body. Your argument rests on physical property being special in some way.
#1341 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoMurdering someone destroys their scarce property (their body in this case). Copying something using your own property leaves the original totally untouched.
Laws (against murder and other crimes) don’t reduce to physical property.
Libertarians often think that the purpose of the law is ONLY to define and enforce property rights. In reality, the purpose of the law is to prevent and address the arbitrary in social life.
It’s true that it would be arbitrary if anyone could just take your property against your will, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only kind of arbitrariness the law should prevent/address.
#1341 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoMurdering someone destroys their scarce property (their body in this case). Copying something using your own property leaves the original totally untouched.
One can steal value without stealing physical property (as happens when you transfer someone’s digital money without their consent).
‘Lawbreakers get away with it all the time so it’s fine.’ How is that an argument?
#1336 · Amaro Koberle, 6 days agoTo keep someone from copying your work you have to infringe on the private property of that person by claiming an exclusive right on prohibiting his use of his privately owned copying medium to instantiate a certain pattern.
‘To stop someone from murdering you you have to infringe on his private property by claiming an exclusive right on prohibiting his use of his privately owned gun to shoot you’ How is that different?
Copyright encourages creativity because the most creative work is done by the original work’s creator, and copyright protects that creation. Without that incentive, many original creators wouldn’t publish their creations in the first place.#1329 · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days agoCopyright is stifling to creativity, as now people are not incentivised to write fan-fictions.
Another way copyright promotes creativity is that it doesn’t allow creations that aren’t sufficiently creative.
#1329 · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days agoCopyright is stifling to creativity, as now people are not incentivised to write fan-fictions.
Copyright encourages creativity because the most creative work is done by the original work’s creator, and copyright protects that creation.
#1329 · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days agoCopyright is stifling to creativity, as now people are not incentivised to write fan-fictions.
People can still publish fan fiction as long as they get the copyright holder’s permission.
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