If no-one had ever invented a wheel before and it therefore was a unique invention that is of immense economic value and John spent 10 years of his very finite life thinking about a way to improve transportation efficiency, then yes, you have really stolen something from John, something you would have been unable to make on your own without the input from John.
Nobody cares about the physical or mental work he put in. The only question is: will he make money or will he not? |
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The whole question boils down to this: should it be a right to have your WORK protected by property rights? Because what you find so twisted is that all the people who work at Microsoft actually should get PAID for the work they do by the people who USE their work. Basically it is just a rationalization of theft. All people have a strong desire to be a GOOD person. Therefore a criminal has a very strong incentive to justify his violations of other people, so that he can hide behind a veil of good conscience that he is the good guy and his victims the bad guys. We see it with rapists ("she wanted it, she got what she deserved"), we see it with thieves ("all people are thieves, I'm just taking back my rightful share of the loot"), murderers do it ("he was lowly animal, he deserved to die") and the same is true with all violators. Even Hitler viewed himself as one of the most moral people to ever have walked the Earth. Anti-IP arguments are basically designed to justify parasiting on creators, and are very often heartfully embraced by people who like to download stuff without paying for them. The morality of information Marxism allows them to do it, not only with a clear conscience, but to view anyone who defends the victims as "pretty twisted."
I have ads revenues and I earned bitcoin for my work. That's good enough justification for me. I don't need somebody to tell me that I can't make a living without copyright. Go die in the marketplace. |
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All minimum wage does is eliminate jobs that can be valued less than $8/hour. It basically makes it illegal for me to collect aluminum cans or scrape gun off the sidewalk for a fair wage from an employer.
Which could lead to unemployment problems in the economy. |
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Did anyone any links to bitcoinservice on 4chan? I just noticed how high the file number had got up to and found somebody uploaded lots of 4chan /s/tyle images on the 1st april. And they also uploaded a handy script to automate uploading of files ( http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/688)  Wow! |
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But suppose that my music gets stolen (someone steals my hard disk with all my music on) and the thief uploads all my music. Do I still own that music, or is it now ok for everyone to copy and distribute that music?
You can just download the music and viola! You have your musics. You lost out on potential profit though.(Not to mention that he stolen your harddrive) |
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Assassination and murder for hire is illegal, for obvious reasons. |
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I information is always owned (i.e. someone's property), how come there should be no property rights for information?
There is. You just don't own the musics I brought. |
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That's not the ONLY question. A question I've been thinking a lot about is what are an employer's potential liabilities if they are caught paying employees in bitcoins "under the table."
I pay people 5 BTC per article. Is that illegal? |
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What console? pc / android / iOS? flash-based?
I'm curious, it seems like a good game in theory.
It's canvas and javascript with processing.js. If you have firefox 4 or google chrome, it should run. Not sure about IE 9. |
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On the contrary, this competitive behavior is exactly what makes a healthy market work. Is competition and trade secrets stifling the growth of the computer industry?
Greed is good. I say MORE COMPETITION! Let the games begin!
Openness and competition is not contrary to each other. |
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I think it is very important for libertarians to learn about their Marxist roots and whether that's really the kind of ideas they want to propagate in the world. ALL anti-IP libertarians I have run into are Marxist materialists, i.e. they deny the existence of the mind (at least in an ethical context) and only acknowledge matter as the source of property. But why is materialism true? It is a false philosophy in so many areas that leads to horribly evil conclusion: materialism denies the existence of mind altogether, and since consciousness is an illusion and has no real existence, then free will must be an illusion, and hence coercion is an illusion. Therefore materialism ultimately leads to a form of dictatorship through the denial of the existence of the mind.
Free will is an illusion because we live in a deterministic universe. We have minds. I see no contradiction. |
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Modern anti-IP libertarians accept the basic materialist philosophy of Marxism, but have traded his labor theory of value with a free market theory of value. The result is that the libertarians use exactly the same arguments against authors and musicians as Marx earlier used against capitalists and managers. Indeed, we've even heard people in this debate stating their motivation for their anti-IP stance: information is a common. Hence they are information Marxists.
What utter nonsense. My writers get paid for their work. I still earn revenue from my site. Information is not a common. Information is always privately owned. |
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The Autoverse (Like Plato's, it comes from one of my favourite novels: Permutation City) It sounds plausiable for my game's name. I don't know if I will be able to design "chemical system" for artificial life but it would be great to design more sophisticated rules that will eventually honor the name. |
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This sounds really fun, do you have something playable? Will it cost bitcoins?
No, there is no playable version yet. I am on a verge of completing a project, then I will switch to work on this project. It will cost bitcoin, as the game use bitcoin as energy. However, energy use will be priced in satoshis. You would need to purchase memory slots to spend beyond 1 BTC. I will work on this project full-time, provided that there is enough funding. |
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Very interesting take. However, the colony doesn't evolve on its own without designs by the players. Perhaps, I could add a random evolutionary mechanism. |
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Microcosmic God
What the idea behind that name? |
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I really like "Automa", it describes that the game contains Cellular Automata, but isn't specific enough to make it sound like a bland research project-turned-game.
automatactics is good too, but maybe a little bland...
It's not exactly "cellular automaton" but the game does evolve from following discrete rules. It's up to the players to design cells. |
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Can you guys come up with a good game name by 0:00 UTC April 5? If you can, you will win 6 BTC. But if it is not better than the name choice, you will get 5 BTC. Fair?
My current choice is "Automata RTS".
Here's a description that will help you figure out a good name:
My game is in essence cellular automata crossed with core wars.
My game is in essence Globulation 2 crossed with core wars.
Basically, you have a colony of square cells in a square world that reacts to certain rules. Your job is to basically make the colony gathers energy, stockpile, reproduce, and destroy the opposing enemy colony all with indirect operations.
You can control one cells at a time but it will be hard for you to organize an military strike, gather energy en masses. But you can organize them through swarm logics, chemical emitter cells, and other tools of the trade.
For example, you could combine a danger sensor cell with a "avoid emitter cell" to create a cell that tells the rest of the colony to avoid an area in case of an enemy attack.
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I established a primitive registration/login system and access restriction.
Before, it was possible for anybody to create an article provided that they know the URL. Now they can't.
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In the end, would anarchism increase individual happiness?
I don't give a damn about happiness. Happiness is just an emotional state. If I want happiness, I would just do drugs. |
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