hi Kevin,<br><br>can I publish this on the blog?<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> institutions and laws have a very long latency factor ...<br>
><br>
> 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<br>
><br>
> without willingness to accompany ignoring the law with an active struggle against it, the same will happen for copyright ..<br>
><br>
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</div>I think ignoring the law and developing countermeasures against<br>
enforcement are a much more cost-effective use of resources than<br>
political action to repeal it. �As far as I know, nobody ever repealed<br>
the Code of Hammurabi. �An unenforceable law is as good as no law at<br>
all.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://radgeek.com/gt/2009/02/07/countereconomic_optimism/" target="_blank">http://radgeek.com/gt/2009/02/07/countereconomic_optimism/</a><br>
"If you want to see copyright restrictions liberalized, then it may be<br>
true that the words on a page in Washington are worse than they�ve<br>
ever been; but the facts on the ground are perhaps better than they�ve<br>
been at any other time in the history of the United States. And while<br>
there is no hope for revising those words for the better any time<br>
soon, the facts are changing for the better every day, all their<br>
lawyers and their lobbyists and their intergovernmental treaties<br>
notwithstanding � they are improving daily as technical problems are<br>
solved, as new sharing networks emerge, and as the problem of even<br>
identifying the competition, let alone shutting them down, becomes<br>
more and more overwhelming for the copyrightists� rear-guard legal<br>
strategy.<br>
<br>
"Why despair, or even care about the legal situation at all, if the<br>
practical situation makes the law irrelevant? A law that cannot be<br>
enforced is as good as a a law that has been repealed, and that is<br>
where we�re headed, faster and faster every day, when it comes to the<br>
intellectual monopolists and their jealously guarded legal<br>
privileges."<br>
<br>
I argued here <<a href="http://c4ss.org/content/5845" target="_blank">http://c4ss.org/content/5845</a>> that, in John Robb's<br>
terminology, enforcement is state capitalism's Systempunkt. �Actually<br>
contesting the plutocrats and big business for control of the state<br>
would be enormously costly, a sisyphean task of endless procedural<br>
steps in which we're outspent 100-to-1 by the plutes and the rules are<br>
rigged in their favor at every single step. �But enforcement is the<br>
weakest link, and devoting a hundredth the resources to disabling that<br>
node can have the same effect in terms of rendering the system<br>
inoperable that capturing the system would have. �Just as, by way of<br>
analogy, Al Qaeda can shut down an entire oil distribution system by<br>
disabling a few key nodes, achieving for a few hundred dollars worth<br>
of explosives the same result that would require thousands of<br>
strategic bombing sorties to destroy the entire physical pipeline<br>
infrastructure. �Why waste resources in the moral equivalent of<br>
house-to-house fighting to secure control of the state when we can<br>
simply throw sand in its gears?<br>
<br>
--<br>
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