Words matter. These are the best John Perry Barlow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
The ‘Total Information Awareness’ project is truly diabolical – mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
I don’t think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it’s going to go there one way or the other.
They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
So I’m just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It’s a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn’t worth the trouble put in.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
It didn’t matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we’d found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It’s not great at that either, but it’s the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
I don’t know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies – not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
It’s widely assumed that you can’t compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
The stratosphere is my church.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander… It’s just an extension of humanity.
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It’s not one or the other. It’s both.
