How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism | Stephan Kinsella

Presented by Stephan Kinsella at the 2010 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: "The Economic Recovery: Washington's Big Lie." Recorded in Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.

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[ALFTUBE50]

For the same reason you don´t go to North Korea.

[Peter Emborsky]

"Linux is a perfect example of what would happen if everything was free."

False. Linux a perfect example of what would happen if Linux was free. which it is. If Microsoft and Apple were not granted state-secured privilege in the form of intellectual property, we would see an entirely different software industry today. It's funny because usually it's us anarchists who are accused of debating in a vacuum, but it appears you're the one who fails to ground yourself in reality.

[BruellwuerfelTV]

there is a fallacious assumption in your argument: how can you conclude that the more books (i.e. novels) there are, the better? Perhaps the market does not need another book of this kind and thus gives the author this information through the market system.

[Michael Eldredge]

He lost me when he claimed that IP supporters use the fact that Einstein worked at a patent office as a justification for IP.

That is almost a textbook case of a strawman argument.

And if you want a numerical analysis fine.

Take an author.

He writes full time and publishes 1book/year.

Under the current system he can just write a novel and sell it to a publisher.

Without IP he must send half his time earning money.

He now publishes .5books/year.

The world is worse off by .5books/year.

[supreme84x]

You obviously do not know what anarchy means.

[oddnejmus]

At the same time - much thanks to the web - people learn to see that nothing comes from nothing, that everything is related and created from something else, explicitly or implicitly. Every last grain of everything you create doesn't have to be and can't magically by created out of the blue. This means that the respect for rigid copyright laws are lost and that creative people dare to be playful, inventive and develop their imagination.

[oddnejmus]

I'm drawn to this perspective for its honesty. It doesn't need copyright, laws, bureaucracy, state monopoly on violence, or a massive amount of money to uphold the above. If it's fraud, then people - being honest, and some of them actually intelligent - will call it for what it is: fraud. It happens on YouTube all the time. People taking credit for what they have not created are criticised and blacklisted. You can only survive as a free-rider for so long (in a system based on honesty).

[oddnejmus]

Nice to see actual intelligence shine out from the halls of stupid that is otherwise Internet.

[kevboslice112]

ooh got in sort of a facebook argument with this guy, I thought he was just an average joe, not some big shot anarcho capitalist.

[Jason Gilliland]

Labor Theory of Value doesn't pay.

This comment brought to you by Linux.

[riverotter68]

this guy takes the long way 'round the barn

[pipem4n]

Book - it would be fraud, claiming it's your creation.

Music - if you can't make it popular it's better to leave it to competent ones. It's not like they play it just like you.

What pulls those "slaves" out of poverty by milions now if not "scubags"?

No you didn't want to vote for Ron Paul - youre a marxist unde rcover.

Not going to debate your taste - no point.