Virtual Property Rights Manifesto: Consumers, Copybots and Common Sense
The only way for consumers to protect virtual property acquired in Second Life and gain full control of legally acquired resources is to copy digital assets to their own hard drives. For most inventory items, this requires logging into Second Life with one of the copybot clients that circumvent Digital Rights Management (DRM) limitations. There are two compelling [...]
The Intellectual nonProperty Sutra aka Gospel of The Word
I was inspired to write this after viewing an excerpt of a lecture by Jay Rosen of NYU on the Ethic of the Link.
IBefore the beginning The Nameless was. Infinite. Timeless. Whole.In the beginning there was The Word. The Word birthed Humankind.The Word was Humankind. And it was good.
IIFor 10,000 years The Word was [...]
