Consider tungsten or platinum, they're theoretical competitors to gold and silver and comparable in their abundance, yet they never took off as currency. Same thing with altcoins: there's history, network effects, etc. The important thing with money is that people think it will be accepted tomorrow.

Too bad Amazon does not offer linux distro downloads or openoffice.org downloads...

"Does anybody else feel like waving a flag after reading this?"

Yes, a black flag in my case.

Hi Peter,

The information in books is nonscarce, in that it can be replicated at very little cost. It will be economically infeasible to try to stop distribution. The best way for you to get the upper hand is to come out as the legitimate, moral author of this; publicly and for yourself. You should set up a website and come out with a suggested fee for donations. There are other ideas too, like having previews and/or early releases for subscribers.

Of course you would still charge for the dead-tree book. Take a look at what Stefan Molyneux has been doing at www.freedomainradio.com. He lives entirely off the donations and subscriptions.

Hope this helps

Hugo

Man, keep talking like that and your code is never compiling...

Care to elaborate?

Yes:

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521879280
http://www.stephankinsella.com/ip/

Hugo G.

Can I have your Natalie Portman bacteria, please?

Vegetarians will need more carbs to stay full...

'nuff said.

Remember he was employed by the publisher of such content, this is relevant.

Yes, it is fair use, and that's why he's probably not gonna be prosecuted. But fired, hell yeah the Company will surely and rightfully fire him!

Don't take me wrong. I believe Copyrights and patents are not real property. This has really nothing to do with the legality of downloading and watching The Origins Movie, but with company policy and the internal, private penalties you incur, such as getting fired.

It's like some McDonald's manager praising the Whopper....

It's not like it's 1995 anymore....

nuff said

This post is so misleading and so wrong... you managed to put together all the fallacies there are about intellectual property.

Please take a look at this, and start forgetting about the labor theory of value (or property)

http://tinyurl.com/5c4289

Nah, me too. It was about time someone would come out with an ARM netbook.