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Bad Ideas: Trying To Make Content More Like Physical Property
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| It shows an out-of-date understanding of economics. While it may mean
| that you can't directly create a (paid) market in that private good, it
| opens up and enables many more markets. Going back to the food analogy:
| if you had many more people in the world who weren't hungry, and didn't
| have to spend all their money on food or food production, would that be
| good or bad for the economy? It seems rather obvious that it would be
| good, as money could be spent on higher level things that expand the
| economy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090908/1319056130.shtml
P2P pushes IPv6 surge
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| IPv6 traffic levels surged over the last 12 months, with the 15-fold
| increase down to just one application and one ISP, according to a study
| by Arbor Networks.
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| Support for IPv6 in ÂTorrent version 1.8, a version of the world's most
| popular BitTorrent client released in August 2008, had a huge effect.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/ipv6_traffic_surge/
Anti-Piracy Boss Confiscates Confiscated Hacker Laptop
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| Tim Kuik, managing director of Dutch anti-piracy gang BREIN, has
| publicly admitted that heâs currently using a Sony VAIO laptop
| previously confiscated from a âhackerâ. Although he doesnât elaborate
| on how he obtained the machine, it is hard not to conclude that it has
| been misappropriated.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-boss-confiscated-laptop-090904/
Related:
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| Microsoft, the worldâs most valuable company, declared a profit
| of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the
| change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss
| of $18 billion, according to Smithers.
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http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html
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