Paul Rosendberg wrote, “THE GOOD NEWS! Finally, a rich guy doing something bold with his money! Peter Thiel (and I don’t think I’ve ever met the gentleman) has put up $500K to get a Seasteading Institute started. Good for you, Peter! And… They will be building their first seastead in San Francisco Bay! HISTORY Sean [...]
Cartoon from the book “God Wants You Dead” by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg. Happy Tax Day to all you citizens of the USA!
In the past few posts I have been discussing current intellectual property law – how its enforcement is actually nothing more than a government enforced monopoly on the reproduction of patterns, and how this distortion of the free market causes a great deal of economic harm. I have also discussed the true free market value [...]
Patri Friendman and Wayne Gramlich have launched the Seasteading institute: http://www.seasteading.org/ Right now it is just a drupal website for build community building and idea exchange, but they will likely soon be a 501C3 non-profit and be able to raise funding. Hopefully they will also finish the book they started working on shortly after I [...]
In a previous post, entitled “Pattern Monopoly,” I talked about how our current system of Intellectual Property is actually a distortion of the free market that degrades the useful concept of property rights. At the end of that article I mentioned the concept of “Plagiarism,” mentioning that it is often erroneously (and perhaps sometimes deliberately) [...]
The whole concept of intellectual property is based on having the government enforce monopoly rights over the distribution of certain patterns of information. Anytime you can freely copy existing information that people find valuable, the value created in the market is always greater than the situation in which the government supports a monopoly on the [...]
The other day a friend forwarded me an article about Intellectual Property by Kevin Kelly that seemed very familiar to me: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php I only just recently figured out why it seemed so familiar when I came across a .pdf copy of Paul’s excellent book “A Lodging of Wayfaring Men” that was being distributed freely online, [...]