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New 'In Praise of Copying'
TTBooks with an npr-aired take on COPYING

Discusses what we might.. do to catch up with the ubiquitous Copies of Everything, and create a happier and More Sustainable culture than [any present travesties on that idea.]

http://ttbook.org/bo...on-praise-copying

(This Is after all, the core of ALL ideas of copyright, perfected-by-lawyers and to serve $Interested Parties etc. etc. Can we do Better? Yet..?)

START OVER??? with entire topic.
NO ONE has ever come up with a Viable Plan for rapidly transforming the depressingly-low 'level-of-Consciousness' of the hive.
Could we?

..would sure beat Mastering 4-D Tetris, as an avocation.. no?
New We all make a living selling ads?
The internet has made us more hive minded, not less.

I disagree with the author: There is such a thing as original expression and creativity; Eliminating copyright does not eliminate economic scarcity; There are companies that have their own $economic motives to bypass compensation to authors - corporations prefer to pay labor zilch.

To some of us, the current culture can be more likened to the robber barons of the 19th century more-so than any imagined post-scarcity utopia.
New Yes, of course..
The arbitrary definitions-of-today of say, The place of Value in a world of Things enters the equally ephemeral realm of, In the final analysis: everything is related to Everything Else [Ashleigh Brilliant]

Since ours is a $$materialistic kultur--in which everything *has* a price-tag: Of Course we cannot -just- cancel all ©.
(But were we (a majority of) Adults, fully aware that it is in our Province to..)

a) Tame-by-bloody-well-Regulating ALL "financial institutions"--with Real oversight
b) Decide, perhaps by plebiscite--just WTF Kind of kultur we would Rather Be
c) Make It So

..well then, such squabbles might have an actual, Authentic Outcome! ie. one via which most sentient kultur-members could at least see, What it is ... we 'Value' (and a bit of Why.)

Til then? Never mind ... nothing beneficent Shall Happen. Just more greedhead VS public welfare pointless exercises signifying nothing/altering nothing.

Pity.
     'In Praise of Copying' - (Ashton) - (2)
         We all make a living selling ads? - (CrisR) - (1)
             Yes, of course.. - (Ashton)

He said, "Listen, shrimp. Don't you come trolling around here." What a crab. This guy was steamed. I could see the anchor in his eyes.
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