Feudalism FUD
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Sat Apr 24 15:36:01 PDT 1999
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."
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