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Modding and the Law

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-just-for-piracy-anymore dept.

S3D writes "An article at O'Reilly discusses modding as a cultural phenomenon and its relation to the law and authority. The conclusion is that social activists are modders too. They want to change the government into something that supports a productive society. They want institutions to stop hiding facts and to pay attention to science. They want to change corporations, change people's day-to-day behavior, and change our own social relationships."

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  1. Re:everything Yay by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Informative

    Corporations exist to produce a useful good. Profits represent the difference in value between instant consumption and investment. However the system has been broken by policies that reinvent those relationships. Instead of the question being asked "is it the most efficient way producing a useful good", and coming to the conclusion that if it is not, the investment needs to be placed elsewhere. http://mises.org/quiz.asp 20. B
    Insider trading is wrongly maligned because who is better to judge the worth of the stock than those responsible for generating results.

    I'm bored, so I'm stopping now.