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Comment Re:Not Selling stolen stuff (Score 2) 72

1. Crucially, they didn't remove infringing material when put on notice. Instead, they just removed particular specified URLs.

Not all links are infringing, though. For example, imagine that if every time a video on Youtube got a take down notice, Youtube removed all copies of that video. How many official (and therefore non-infringing) videos would get removed?

It would be rather perverse if doing data de-duplication on identical files made someone guilty of contributory copyright infringement, given that the result would be fewer existing copies of the data than otherwise.

Comment Re: Libertarian nirvana (Score 1) 534

I am pretty sure that it isn't really a thing.

All of us anarcho-capitalists beg to differ.

Really. It is just putting together two opposite meaning words

Anarchy is categorized by a lack of rulers\the state. Capitalism is a system whereby the means of production are privately owned. There is no inherent contradiction.

Libertarianism fundamentally believes in government

Other than all those libertarians that don't fundamentally believe in government, you mean.

Comment Re:Libertarian nirvana (Score 1) 534

I do agree that the logical end of libertarianism is anarcho-capitalism. That's the old joke:

Q: What the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist?
A: About six months!

The rest of your post amount to "Your views are extreme, therefore they are incorrect", which is simply an appeal to moderation, so I'm not certain exactly what it is I'm supposed to respond with.

"Nuh uh"?

Comment Re:Libertarian nirvana (Score 1) 534

Be mindful of how you use "libertarian". Most libertarians believe in a small government that executes a limited number of duties, including police, courts, and military, and thus your statement is directed towards the wrong group. The group you're looking for is "anarchists".

Be mindful of how you use "privatize". Trading an unaccountable, public monopoly that feeds off the taxpayers for an unaccountable, private monopoly that feeds off the taxpayers is not true privatization.

As an anarchist myself, this is obviously not what we mean when we say we want to privatize police. Once the police are (a) voluntarily funded and (b) no longer given a government-backed monopoly on security services, then you can declare an anarchist nirvana. :)

Comment Re:An experiment in motion (Score 3, Informative) 480

1. They are already "increasing the money supply". They simply don't have enough physical bills now to hand out all the digital money they are inventing.
2. A fiat currency controlled by a state apparatus is not a "free market", no matter which direction they end up choosing.

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