Deconstructing Stupidity - Why is IP Policy Bad?

An anonymous reader writes "There is a good attempt on the Financial Times site by James Boyle to explain why intellectual property policy making is so bad. From the article: 'These are the ground rules of the information society. Mistakes hurt us.... Why are we making them? To some the answer is obvious: corporate capture of the decision making process. This is a nicely cynical conclusion. But wait. There are economic interests on both sides. The film and music industries are tiny compared to the consumer electronics industry.'"

Comments

Re:Emergence.... and demergence

[syousef]

It's actually a little worse than that.

In both cases you're assuming everyone's doing their best or at least making a positive effort. With large systems of people you have people supporting competing goals that undermine each other, and sometimes worse. eg. war and violent crime.

Unfortunately I think there's already plenty of names for this. eg. Law of the jungle, survival of the fittest.