> I *am* a left-wing anarchist! Surely capitalism is much closer to anarchy than socialism since it requires much less government intervention (in fact, I believe that government intervention damages capitalism)?
> I object to the idea of using micropayments in Freenet both on > ideological and practical grounds, while you object to it just on > practical grounds. Actually where questions of freedom of information are concerned, I don't see much of a difference between the practical, and the idealogical. If it were practical to use purely* technological means to prevent information from being duplicated without the author's permission, then I wouldn't have a problem with it (the only alternative would be to make that technology illegal - and making technologies illegal is not my thing). * By this I mean without relying on any form of legal sanction or government threat The point is that it is *not* possible to prevent "piracy" through purely technological means - and it is unlikely that methods will be developed, up to now people have required the threat of government sanction in the form of copyright law. Now the issue is that as communication technology improves even government sanctions are becomming less and less effective, Freenet makes them rather impotent. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000818/5a178964/attachment.pgp>
