Posted on 12/21/2011 8:39:14 AM PST by ShadowAce
Something like this HAS to be done, elsewise how does the feedback loop get completed to inform government that not every nook and cranny of our existence is subject to their approval?
Yes, piracy is bad. True piracy. But half the stuff that Big Entertainment includes in their ever-expanding and all-consuming definition isn’t actually piracy (”If the letters in your name can be rearranged to spell ‘Mickey’, you’re infringing. Don’t bother sending a check, we’ll be debiting your bank account directly.”), and even to the extent that “piracy” is a problem, not every problem requires a government “solution”. In fact most don’t.
In fact, this whole response reminds me of that old saw about how outages aren’t a problem, cause the internet just “routes around it”. So analogously, overly intrusive government isn’t entirely problematic, cause freedom just “routes around it”! (In this case, quite literally)
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