[free-sklyarov] Backlash

[Kris]

At 08:08 AM 7/27/2001 +0200, David Haworth wrote:
 >On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:51:59AM -0700, Adrian Dunston wrote:
 >>
 >> 	I own copyrighted material,
 >
 >By saying that, you're falling into the semantic trap of the corporations.
 >You don't _own_ anything (except insofar as you own the physical medium
 >that it's stored on) - you have a limited monopoly on certain
 >acts of publishing that material.
 >
 >This concept of "ownership" of "content" is the reason we're in this mess
 >in the first place - for some reason, certain corporations appear to
 >think that they own patterns in the magnetic field of my hard disk ...

True, no one can't "own" an idea or thought.  The government, may, however 
grant a person a monopoly to profit from an idea.

Kris