>http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=4938
The problem with most conspiracy theories is that they attribute
intelligence and power to something in an exaggerated sense. This, I think,
comes from staring into the well too long - and falling in.
I read a translated version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rebelion.org%2Fnoticia.php%3Fid%3D4938&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8
There is a problem, and I do not want to take away from the problem. But
the problem is not so much a matter of 'Empire' as it is business. Mark
Twain once wrote, "I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if
there was only one in the world." This is business, and to an extent it is
good business. But there is more to it than that. I've read about it
extensively, and even written about it here and there.
Certainly, to someone having 'forced' upon them laws related to Patent,
Copyright and Trademark (usually massed together as 'intellectual
property') seems unfair. It would seem that there is an Empire, and it's
possible that there is. But if there is, it's more likely to be an Empire
of our own making. The majority of us live in democracies, where the
government is elected by the people - for the people. And the governments
make decisions - supposedly by the people and for the
people. And yet, rights of the people are sold through the representative
government - mostly quietly. Outside, the people hear nothing at all - but
who is at fault? Is it the government elect? Or is it the people who
elected the government?
In Lessig's book, 'Free Culture', he mentions something related to this
in Chapter 5 (http://www.easylum.net/book/view/37 )
"If a country is to be treated as a sovereign
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty>, however, then its laws are
its laws regardless of their source. The international law
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law> under which these
nations live gives them some opportunities to escape the burden of
intellectual property law
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_law>.^2
<http://www.easylum.net/book/view/47> In my view, more developing
nations should take advantage of that opportunity, but when they don't,
then their laws should be respected. And under the laws of these
nations, this piracy is wrong." -- Lessig, "Free Culture", Chapter 5
(http://www.easylum.net/book/view/37 )
Countries are not exercising sovereignity. Why is that? If one side can
be blamed for being an Empire, ultimately the other side must be.
A Tale of Two Empires. Both want what each other have. And the people
suffer.
But that's rhetoric, and hardly useful for anything but discussion at a
coffee shop. When you talk about people having jobs and the ability to
use things which they own (instead of license!), then one comes down
from the clouds and meets the concrete problem - and concrete solutions.
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