American - Writer | October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
John Perry Barlow
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.
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The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
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I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
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I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.
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There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
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