Comments on: Copyright is always government intervention

By: Mike Linksvayer » Copyright restriction

Mike Linksvayer » Copyright restriction — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:50:52 +0000

[...] instead of ‘copyright restriction’ (19,300 Google hits) is a peeve of mine and seeing copyright equated with censorship a small [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Wikileaks flows

Mike Linksvayer » Wikileaks flows — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:08:55 +0000

[...] In one recent item cited on Slashdot, a copyright claim is being used to attempt to censor Wikileaks. How unsurprising. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Piracy subverts censorship

Mike Linksvayer » Piracy subverts censorship — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:40:11 +0000

[...] Copyright is and enables censorship. Lack of copyright enforcement enables free speech. Philip J. Cunningham writes: I was browsing for DVDs on a cold winter afternoon in one of Beijing’s finer bootleg shops when I came upon three boxed sets of DVDs critical of communism. One of the pirated sets, produced by Turkish presenter Harun Yahya, promised to detail the horrors of communism from an Islamic perspective, another by an American producer chronicled the uncomfortably bloody rise of modern China and the third contained Tiananmen footage from BBC TV News. Presumably the DVD pirates were in it for the money, but were they also unwittingly making China a freer place? [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Go Antigua!!!

Mike Linksvayer » Go Antigua!!! — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:20:59 +0000

[...] in flames, both because they are a tool for arbitrary censorship and control in much the same way copyright is and because they are a barrier to use of prediction [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Steps toward better software and content

Mike Linksvayer » Steps toward better software and content — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:39:56 +0000

[...] it is a major barrier to collaboration in some contexts and politically it is still based on censorship. So I’m always extremely pleased by any expansion of the public domain. There could hardly be [...]