The end of copyright and patent is where we should be headed

[runpaint]

I think the "discussion" about capitalism should probably belong in another topic.

You're the one who started the topic with a call to take away our personal property rights.

I do have a reputation for locking topics that I started

Yes, most communists are totalitarians, and they take away free speech as soon as they get any power.  Maybe you can't take away my rights yet, but you can sure force me to stop talking!  That'll show me!   

[CIYAM]

You're the one who started the topic with a call to take away our personal property rights.

Hmm... good attempt at trolling perhaps but not really very interesting.

[Beliathon]

Yes, most communists are totalitarians, and they take away free speech as soon as they get any power.  Maybe you can't take away my rights yet, but you can sure force me to stop talking!  That'll show me!  

Conveniently ignoring the fact that our capitalist corporate elite have been fighting tooth and nail to debase the internet for the last decade..

[CIYAM]

Yes, most communists are totalitarians, and they take away free speech as soon as they get any power.  Maybe you can't take away my rights yet, but you can sure force me to stop talking!  That'll show me!  

Now I am being accused of being a communist and a totalitarian - I guess this is just because I happen to live in China?

(you are almost amusing me now)

[Btcvilla]

Yes, most communists are totalitarians, and they take away free speech as soon as they get any power.  Maybe you can't take away my rights yet, but you can sure force me to stop talking!  That'll show me!  

Now I am being accused of being a communist and a totalitarian - I guess this is just because I happen to live in China?

(you are almost amusing me now)

Don't feed the trolls..... Just ingore them and get back on topic.

Hopefully copyright and patents will change in the next few years.

[CIYAM]

Hopefully copyright and patents will change in the next few years.

To get back on topic - unfortunately I seriously doubt that as those who "own this property" are ever going to give that up (and I am not advocating to "take their property from them" as some seem to think).

I think our best hope is for things like creative commons, open source and blockchains that simply "don't care" about such antiquated ideas (i.e. they can hold on to Mikey Mouse to the bitter end but eventually a new character will replace it that isn't *owned* by anyone).

[ObscureBean]

That's very naive thinking. You obviously haven't delved deep enough with your analysis else you would understand that relinquishing control has to happen on all levels for it to mean anything at all. Everything around you has been built using control.

[CIYAM]

That's very naive thinking. You obviously haven't delved deep enough with your analysis else you would understand that relinquishing control has to happen on all levels for it to mean anything at all. Everything around you has been built using control.

Calling someone naive and offering zero analysis yourself just shows you made that post for your "sig money" rather than for any other reason.