The Information Revolution

Rich Tate

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The idea that we don’t need lawsuits to combat copyright issues, but new laws that better adapt to our age of information seems to be catching on a bit more everyday.

"There is no ancient and abstract principle of right and wrong, which can safely be deduced as a guide to regulate the relations of railways and monopolies among our people, because railways and monopolies are products of forces unknown in former times. The character of competition has changed, and the law must change to meet it, or collapse. Such is my general theory."
 
I agree, but unfortunately the people making the laws are a couple of decades out of date.
 
I agree, but unfortunately the people making the laws are a couple of decades out of date.

It may not matter. As long as DRM can be circumvented in one way or another then intellectual property will be copied and distributed. I don't see how digital information can be protected without also being copied.
 
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