For the next little while I'm gonna tackle a topic a day and give you my viewpoint. Of course I'll summarize when needed, but I don't think I'll need to very often. Simplicity...it remains underemployed.
On downloading songs and such from the internet
Songs, just like words and thoughts and ideas, cannot be "owned". They are abstract. They do not exist in the physical realm.
CD's, on the other hand, do exist in the physical realm. I can purchase a CD, and owning the CD, I can do with it what I please. If I want to give away all the information on the CD to everyone in the world, that is my prerogative. Once again, because information is abstract, it cannot be owned.
On a similar note, I disagree with copyright. Suppose I ever finish the book I'm writing at a snail's pace, and it is published. Suppose you want to make copies of the book and give them away. Go ahead! They're just words, dude! I don't own them! It would be polite to tell people who wrote those particular words in this particular order, but only polite. Not mandatory.
Intellectual Property. Pardon? You've got to be one deluded motherfucker to buy into that shit.
