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Boyle on Webcasters and WIPO

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the adversity-is-good-for-the-soul dept.

pjones writes "It's always amazing to see an article in Financial Times that supports webcasters and open source, but James Boyle sticks it to the World Intellectual Property Organization in his latest article, "More rights are wrong for webcasters." Boyle lays it out so that "economists, political scientists and people who simply want to make money" can get what's wrong."

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  1. Cry me a river by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "running a car is both socially and environmentally irresponsible"

    Lets deconstruct this a bit:

        "running a car is [...] socially irresponsible"

    In what way? Because it breaks some sort of societal contract? Are you upset because people choose not to live in dirty, overcrowded cities? Sounds like you're mainly upset that the automobile give people a choice. A choice you feel they should be allowed to make because it upsets the way you think society should run. Sorry, *you* don't get to choose how I live.

        "running a car is [...] environmentally irresponsible"

    Because it uses resources? By that measure, your mother having children is irresponsible. You may feel you've got the moral high ground on this issue, but there is no moral high ground on this issue. You use the environmental argument as a way to somehow give substance to your original point: you've decided how best society should work and anything that differs from your ideal is "irresponsible", as if you get to measure that.

    I think what you've done with your entire life is irresponsible, but its not my business; that's up to you. My job isn't to moralize to you about what you should or shouldn't do. I can disapprove, but I'm at least wise enough to keep it to myself.

    Idiot.