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Interesting Links for 08-06-2015

Jun 08, 2015 12:00

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"intellectual propertty" apostle_of_eris June 8 2015, 15:15:40 UTC

"Intellectual property" was invented for/because of the printing press. In 1450 you convinced someone of something by attributing it to Aristotle, not by claiming originality.
It took 200 years for society to mostly adapt to the printing press (colophons, page numbers, enabling tables of contents and indices; science, the Reformation, nationalism). I don't think it will take as long for electronic information, but we're still in the incunabula stage.

In fall 1984, at the first Hackers' Conference, I said in one discussion session: "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
- Stewart Brand, May 1985 *Whole Earth Review*, p. 49.

RE: "intellectual propertty" andrewducker June 8 2015, 16:12:21 UTC

Absolutely. The tension, and discussion, is probably the important bit at the moment. Although I'd like to see a shift towards freedom, I also think that this kind of thing has to take _some_ time, to let people move with it.

(DRM on books annoys me though. It's just such a stupid idea.)

alextfish June 8 2015, 15:44:28 UTC

Just happened across this and thought you might find it amusing (/absurd/terrifying):

http://codepen.io/alexmwalker/pen/paHcG

The CSS has one nifty line you can uncomment at line 192 to get a slight clue as to how it works. Still ridiculous.

alextfish June 8 2015, 15:54:39 UTC

Oh, and I forgot to mention the behind-the-scenes walkthrough of creating it explaining how it all works (and how little of a "game" it actually is).

andrewducker June 8 2015, 16:10:49 UTC

You seem to have your href and text the wrong way around there...

alextfish June 8 2015, 16:13:42 UTC

D'oops! Er, yes. Typing too quickly. You can tell what I meant, anyway!

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