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From: | David Kastrup |
Subject: | Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:03:10 -0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes: > Tim Smith wrote: > [...] >> Can you suggest a third alternative (that is economically sound)? > > I think that capitalism (in the sense of market of exclusive rights in > intangibles) is economically sound. The history has shown that all > anti-capitalist experiments has failed miserably. Like the experiment of giving authors copyrights that terminate after a finite time span? History has shown that enough money buys everything, including lawmakers. Time and again. It has just not shown that this is a good thing. -- David Kastrup
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