Intellectual property has been on
Intellectual property has been on my mind for a long time. The internet is a garden of eden for people to trade anything with one another. Business sees the internet as a way to market products another way to plug people in and to create ‘brand loyalty’, interactive tv, but it has so much more potential. Much of that potential is being realized to the detriment of those would seek to control it. Most of what is great about the internet is invisible to the profiteering brigands of ‘e-commerce’. The idea of an economy based upon sharing with one another is beyond their grasp. An economy not intent on merely accumulating piles of cash. That is what the internet is becoming to the dismay of these new mandarins, the riaa’s and the mpaa’s of the world. Some interesting articles today: one about internet pirates (everyone) getting sneaky.
There was a good story about China blaming internet cafes for societal ills, but I couldn’t find it again. The concept of communication that is decentralized and which supercedes national boundaries scares many a government including our own evil empire. Incidentally, the american government is developing a domestic military presence to deal with ‘domestic’ issues.