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Shirky on Spectrum Ownership
scubacuda writes "When engineering assumptions change, shouldn't the laws that govern technology reflect those changing assumptions? Perhaps Clay Shirky puts it best: 'Things like shoes, cars, and houses are all property. Property is excludable -- it is easy to prevent others from using it -- and rival -- meaning that one person's use of it will interfere with another person's use of it. Spectrum has neither characteristic. Spectrum is purely descriptive -- a frequency is just a particular number of waves a second -- so no one can own a particular frequency of spectrum in the same way no one can own a particular color of light. Instead, when an organization 'owns' spectrum, what they really have is a contract guaranteeing Federal prosecution if someone else broadcasts on their frequency in their area. The regulatory costs of forcing spectrum to emulate property are enormous, but worthwhile so long as it leads to better use of spectrum than other methods can. That used to be true. No longer.'"
No, liberty and freedom are dead, Communismism is thriving in the Republic of China, if you want all your jobs to go there, perhaps you should think of them as dead, what a blinkered perspective on life you have.
Said by one of 300 million americans in a world with 500 million mostly-socialist europeans (more if you include Russia, techinically part of europe up until the ural mountains) and a billion commie chinese....
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