Copywrongs

by Samuel Edward Konkin III

http://www.voluntaryist.com/articles/020.php

Because copyrights permeate all mass media, Copyright is the Rip-off That Dare Not Mention Its Name. The rot corrupting our entire communications market is so entrenched it will survive nothing short of abolition of the State and its enforcement of Copyright. Because the losers, small-name writers and all readers, lose so little each, we are content – it seems – to be nickel-and-dime plundered. Why worry about mosquito bites when we have the vampire gouges of income taxes and automobile tariffs?

It is a creature of the State, the Vampire’s little bat. And, as far as I’m concerned, the word should be copywrong.

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Against intellectual property

by Brian Martin

http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html

There is a strong case for opposing intellectual property. Among other things, it often retards innovation and exploits Third World peoples. Most of the usual arguments for intellectual property do not hold up under scrutiny. In particular, the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas provides no justification for ownership of ideas. The alternative to intellectual property is that intellectual products not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. Strategies against intellectual property include civil disobedience, promotion of non-owned information, and fostering of a more cooperative society.

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Agorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism

Agorism is an anarchist political philosophy founded by Samuel Edward Konkin III that holds the ultimate goal as bringing about a society in which all “relations between people are voluntary exchanges — a free market.”^[1] The term comes from the Greek word “agora,” referring to an open place for assembly and market in ancient Greek city-states. Ideologically, it is a term representing a revolutionary type of free market anarchism,^[2] with “revolutionary” not referring to violent revolution but emphasis on “counter-economics” – untaxed “black” market activity, which agorists believe has the ability to contribute to the elimination of the state.