Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2006/05/11/pffs-singleton-defends/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] PFF's Singleton defends digital rights management and the DMCA in new paper [ip] Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:32:28 -0700 From: Brad Templeton <btm@private> Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> CC: Politech <politech@private> References: <44636289.6020206@private> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:12:57AM -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: > By way of background, copyright and the DMCA are a divisive issue among > libertarians, as we've seen before (in other words, it's not just PFF > that takes the IP-is-property view): I am curious as to why you characterize this as an "IP is property" issue. After all, many libertarians believe that land can be property and that the government has the power and duty to help you secure your land, yet at the same time oppose bans on the sale of lockpicks, or the publication of details on how to break the security of physical systems which protect our physical property. Indeed, I would be surprised if the vast bulk of libertarians didn't feel this way. The DMCA anti-circumvention provisions grant the state a new power to control what tools I can posess and sell, rather than its traditional power to control how individuals misuse those tools. This does not follow from the belief that IP is property. I say this without directly addressing Solveig Singleton's arguments. If they are valid, it is as statist arguments, not libertarian ones. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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