[P2P-F] the last chance for copyright

[Michel Bauwens]

hi Kevin,

can I publish this on the blog?

Michel

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > institutions and laws have a very long latency factor ...
> >
> > consider that now the overall majority of all citizens, all age groups
> and democrats/republicans alike, are in favour of the legalization of
> marihuana .. yet it could still take decades before that happens
> >
> > without willingness to accompany ignoring the law with an active struggle
> against it, the same will happen for copyright ..
> >
>
> I think ignoring the law and developing countermeasures against
> enforcement are a much more cost-effective use of resources than
> political action to repeal it.  As far as I know, nobody ever repealed
> the Code of Hammurabi.  An unenforceable law is as good as no law at
> all.
>
> http://radgeek.com/gt/2009/02/07/countereconomic_optimism/
> "If you want to see copyright restrictions liberalized, then it may be
> true that the words on a page in Washington are worse than they’ve
> ever been; but the facts on the ground are perhaps better than they’ve
> been at any other time in the history of the United States. And while
> there is no hope for revising those words for the better any time
> soon, the facts are changing for the better every day, all their
> lawyers and their lobbyists and their intergovernmental treaties
> notwithstanding — they are improving daily as technical problems are
> solved, as new sharing networks emerge, and as the problem of even
> identifying the competition, let alone shutting them down, becomes
> more and more overwhelming for the copyrightists’ rear-guard legal
> strategy.
>
> "Why despair, or even care about the legal situation at all, if the
> practical situation makes the law irrelevant? A law that cannot be
> enforced is as good as a a law that has been repealed, and that is
> where we’re headed, faster and faster every day, when it comes to the
> intellectual monopolists and their jealously guarded legal
> privileges."
>
> I argued here <http://c4ss.org/content/5845> that, in John Robb's
> terminology, enforcement is state capitalism's Systempunkt.  Actually
> contesting the plutocrats and big business for control of the state
> would be enormously costly, a sisyphean task of endless procedural
> steps in which we're outspent 100-to-1 by the plutes and the rules are
> rigged in their favor at every single step.  But enforcement is the
> weakest link, and devoting a hundredth the resources to disabling that
> node can have the same effect in terms of rendering the system
> inoperable that capturing the system would have.  Just as, by way of
> analogy, Al Qaeda can shut down an entire oil distribution system by
> disabling a few key nodes, achieving for a few hundred dollars worth
> of explosives the same result that would require thousands of
> strategic bombing sorties to destroy the entire physical pipeline
> infrastructure.  Why waste resources in the moral equivalent of
> house-to-house fighting to secure control of the state when we can
> simply throw sand in its gears?
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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