[lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kindoflaborproducesintellectualproperty?

[Voyou]

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 17:53 -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> And we may get that.  But it 
> won't be copyright that will be giving us that; it'll be secure 
> distribution.  Copyright is what got put into place because powerful 
> interests wanted a way to sue someone over piracy.  If you make the 
> piracy infeasible, you no longer need copyright.

That's a pretty big "if," though, isn't it? Once your intellectual
property is in a digital form, piracy is always pretty much feasible.

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