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  • Re: Intellectual property

    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_yankees_trademarked_yankees
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by freewheeler on Tue, Nov 17 2009
  • Re: Intellectual property

    [quote user="Maxliberty"] This is a very good post. The anti information as property group have no answer for the theft of information dilemma. If the only penalty is trespassing when your valuable information is stolen then computer hacking and industrial espionage become basically legal from this libertarian perspective. An employee of the
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by freewheeler on Tue, Nov 17 2009
  • Re: Intellectual property

    I'm not sure if this thread is being continued, but a thought came to me that I would like an opinion on: If what I said above about a contract preventing a person from releasing certain information is enforceable in a world where IP doesn't exist, i.e., the Coca Cola example, as the medium of the information (brain, mouth ) is property, would
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by freewheeler on Fri, Nov 13 2009
  • Re: Intellectual property

    [quote user="Maxliberty"] The Austrians believe that copying information is not theft because information can not be owned according to them. In the case of computer hacking, if the Austrians are consistent, then there can be no restitution for hacking into a computer and copying data. Even if there is some damage to the computer or loss of
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by freewheeler on Thu, Nov 12 2009
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