Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:06:58 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 11:53:19, Roger Brown wrote: >> >>But when you get your cash or your car stolen, you actually lose the property. >> >>When someone infringes on your intellectual property, you still have it. > > > >Hello Bo, > > >I have heard this argument which is used to make the theft of intellectual >property a different thing from the theft of physical property. Hello Roger, I think that it is different and one of the reasons is that the society consider it as different. Note for this discussion that I consider what you call "theft of intellectual property" as immoral but I prefer not to use the word theft but simply use the word piracy because I usually use the word theft for theft of physical property that I consider as worse. I believe that most people who use computers in Israel are quilty of piracy and the same for many countries and the society simply does not consider it the same as theft of phsyical property. People are influenced by people in their environment and you cannot ignore it. Even in theft of phsycal property I consider a person who decide about doing it not because of learning from his environment as worse relative to a person who learned it from his family and his friends. In the second case at least part of the fault is of his environment and probably a lot of people who do not steal could steal in case that they were instead of him. > >Personally, I think it is an absurd argument. > >In a decade or so are you aware that the most valuable property will be the >product of our minds and not the car or the stereo or the computer? I do not know. I thought also that maybe it is better to live in a world when there is no intelectual property in software and people are free to copy every software(note that I do not support doing it against the law and my thought about it was simply about changing the law). Considering the fact that a lot of programmers develop free software not in order to make money I am not sure if we are going to get inferior software in this case. Uri
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