On Friday 15 February 2013 10:18:00 michael noble wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:34 PM, drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are you serious? > > Yes and no. I think you're as likely to do away with copyright as you are > to do away with desire simply because there are so many people who desire > copyright to exist. Most days I think I agree with you which is why I currently suggest a copyright offensive instead: http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/04/some-thoughts-on-copyright-offensive.html > Is it a worthy battle to fight? I don't know. However, people are already fighting the battle to abolish copyright and as I have said on these lists recently, I would certainly prefer no copyright law at all than the copyright laws we have today. And some days I think that the so called copyright maximalists will push too far and we will see a major backlash and perhaps even see them abolished. > All I > know is that if we really want to talk about freedom then I think we need > to admit first of all to the entrapment inherent to human nature that stems > from desire. As in slaves to our own desires or even base desires? I can see the need to speak to that. > If we are not willing to start from that most basic point, > then most else seems like smokescreen - a kind of post > hoc justification for getting what we want. There's no harm in wanting > something, I just don't like dressing it up in moral arguments as though it > were something other than desire. To me that will just generate an endless > tit for tat of iterative argumentation from either side. Well, I don't happen to like the greed is good language that is bandied about when speaking of Free Markets myself. I also sometimes posit that a Free Market may be necessary but it is certainly not sufficient. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
