5 Aug
2002
5 Aug
'02
11:42 a.m.
http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/30/2024235 "...Intellectual property rights create large patterns of interference in the freedom of others because abstract objects are a crucial kind of resource. Abstract objects are vital to all kinds of social, cultural and economic projects..." War on an abstract object anyone? War on a tactic? "...private, arbitrary, unchecked, global power will become a part of life in the information society. A world in which seed rights, algorithms, DNA and chemical formulae are owned by a few, a world in which information flows can be coordinated by information-media barons, might indeed be an information feudalism."