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Rental societyRental societyPosted Aug 15, 2008 19:26 UTC (Fri) by johnmark (guest, #47025)In reply to: Rental society by giraffedata Parent article: GeekPAC to fight for information rights
The point is that we should have the protected right to access whatever information we've legally obtained - via our method of choice. You may agree or disagree with that, but that's one of our key points. The follow-on to that is calculating the opportunity and innovation cost of *not* granting the rights outlined above. This is impossible to calculate with any accuracy, unfortunately, which hampers our ability to put this argument into terms like "impacts x% of GDP growth." Instead, we have to appeal to people's sense of decency and back-of-the-napkin calculations. I like appealing to people's sense of decency, but I would love to put together a more substantial argument. -John Mark http://www.geek-pac.org/
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Rental society Posted Aug 16, 2008 17:40 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] The point is that we should have the protected right to access whatever information we've legally obtained - via our method of choice. You may agree or disagree with that, but that's one of our key points. Well, I haven't agreed or disagreed because I still don't know what your point is. Originally, you had a self-contradiction, and now you have a tautology. It seems to me to say, "we should have the right to access whatever we have the right to access." But you do add the thing about our method of choice. Is the point that we should be able to buy the right to access a piece of information either by every method or not at all? I.e. like existing product standard laws: you don't have to buy a television set, but if you do, it has to have all the channels, closed captioning, parental controls, etc.
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