Intellectual Property Deserves a Fence

Posted on August 25, 2002 in Liberty

The copyright pirates were whining again on #politics. So I proposed something: let’s treat all property like you want to treat copyright. I want to be able to drive whatever car tickles my fancy. Let me just walk up to any one on the street and drive it away as it pleases me. I want to live in whatever house appeals to me. Let me just move in. The rules the copyright pirates want for the world might work well in the wake of a nuclear war or a lab-spawned plague when all the copyright holders were dead and didn’t care.