Intellectual Property

Everyone check out my first professional blog post, written over at TorrentFreak! 6 Reasons Why Filesharing Will Go Down in History as the Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Music

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Suppose you are a mad scientist performing experiments in your basement and you discover a drug that cures cancer. Do you have a moral obligation to share it with the rest of the world? What if you just sit on it and keep it to yourself, is that evil? Can the government intervene and force [...]

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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” – Max Planck Look, I’m the first to admit that we young people are dumb: we are sex-crazed, druggy rock [...]

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Philip on August 31st, 2008

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, envisions a 24th century utopia where people want for nothing.  There is no money; replicators can create anything you need.  Food?  Shelter?  Clothing?  No problem.  Because of this, there is no poverty, no homeless people, no crime, and no violence.  It’s a perfect world, except for one thing: [...]

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