Alan C.

If you're asking how the concept of IP might exist and be enforced under market anarchy, I imagine that freeloading would carry the same social stigma as bad manners, poor taste, and obnoxiousness. Personally, I don't see this issue as being a huge problem. Entrepreneurs such as Gabe Newell from Valve Software have demonstrated that piracy is insignificant. Whether he realizes it or not, he is rendering the issue of IP moot.

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The State has always been the source of IP, but the source of the alleged property right in ideas and patterns misses the point.IP asserts that mimicry is commensurate with trespass.

The fundamental problem with IP, which Stephan Kinsella discusses in this video, is that it is a State-granted property right over a person by another person. IP allows a person to use the State apparatus to compel another person to refrain from using his own body.

Ga. School Board Member Charged With Hitting Teen in Parking Lot Dispute Anybody want to take a wild guess as to how she probably treats her kids? [view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvOUm73TSU:640:390]

Des Moines columnist calls for repeal of Second Amendment, death of gun owners

Hundreds of cars torched in French New Year 'tradition' Maybe the reason why they burn cars is because they saw Paul Krugman on YouTube.

The Journal News is Armed and Dangerous

It can't be emphasized enough that the droves of people who are demanding more gun-control and outright bans only support such things for people who are not part of the State apparatus. They don't oppose violence on principle; they just oppose it when committed by somebody who isn't acting as an agent of the State. It's similar to people who oppse only private slavery, but not public slavery.

School attended by Obama's daughters has armed guards

Effects of physical discipline linger for adults Is it okay to spank?

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GE Likely to Avoid Liability in Japan Nuke Crisis

This is a really good presentation. I couldn't figure out when it was filmed but it looks like it was probably in the late 1980s. [view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTz_V9ubZMQ]

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