You've gotten the point, but don't seem to believe it's serious: Anyone, anywhere, *can* determine which property rights are valid and which aren't and which should be respected and which shouldn't. Permission isn't present or necessary when I pick up a penny in the street, and it isn't present or necessary when I copy a C64 version of Jumpman.
There are plenty of civilized nations who do quite fine with a sense of worth based on something other than property. And while you're right that IP is going to be important to the societies of the future, I think you're wrong about how it will be expressed -- the rights we'll both be marching for will be for individual creators to keep their creative rights, not for producers and corporations to purchase those.
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You've gotten the point, but don't seem to believe it's serious: Anyone, anywhere, *can* determine which property rights are valid and which aren't and which should be respected and which shouldn't. Permission isn't present or necessary when I pick up a penny in the street, and it isn't present or necessary when I copy a C64 version of Jumpman.
There are plenty of civilized nations who do quite fine with a sense of worth based on something other than property. And while you're right that IP is going to be important to the societies of the future, I think you're wrong about how it will be expressed -- the rights we'll both be marching for will be for individual creators to keep their creative rights, not for producers and corporations to purchase those.
Sorry, but that just isn't the way it happened. Useful information is at SJ Games' Web Site