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Is copyright good or bad?
Copyrights should be respected and are a good idea; they should exist 67%  67%  [ 12 ]
Copyrights should not exist and should be ignored while they exist 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Copyrights should be respected while they exist, but it would be best to work towards their abolition 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
Copyrights should exist for anything I produce, but ignored for anything I want to use 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
I don't care/other 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
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08 Sep 2008, 11:34 pm

NeantHumain wrote:
Geeks on Slashdot, who constitute the majority of libertarians, it seems, are usually the biggest supporters of free P2P sharing of copyrighted music, movies, computer games, and anime because these are their interests; therefore, they couldn't care less about their otherwise principles. Many of them are constantly downloading stuff—while they sleep, while they're in class, and while they're at work. It's just self-interest.

Also, they're mostly libertarians because libertarianism is considered to be cool in the computer geek community.


oh really?.. that's not the least bit steriotypical.. do they all really care about libertarianizm?.. or are you jsut saying that they do.



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09 Sep 2008, 12:51 pm

Can somebody have a go at defining "libertarian" as a political philosophy here please, I'm familiar with it as synonymous with anarchism (some anarchists at least here in the U.K seem to prefer using the term libertarian as it doesn't have the 'bomb thrower in a black cloak' associations that anarchist has for many people, and the Spanish anarchist movement has long described itself as libertarian (libertario/a) but it's clearly not being used in that anti-state communist way here. I know I could go google it, but I'd be more interested in a definition by the people using it here...



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09 Sep 2008, 2:41 pm

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09 Sep 2008, 2:48 pm

bobbob94 wrote:
Can somebody have a go at defining "libertarian" as a political philosophy here please, I'm familiar with it as synonymous with anarchism.

Oh, sorry, US Libertarianism is what I was referring to. Some are anarchist, but most aren't. Basically, the general philosophy is to abolish all laws concerning "victimless crimes" and minimize (or abolish) the role of government in various areas. There is a strong emphasis on property rights, and therefore a dislike of taxation.


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09 Sep 2008, 3:28 pm

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Oh, sorry, US Libertarianism is what I was referring to. Some are anarchist, but most aren't. Basically, the general philosophy is to abolish all laws concerning "victimless crimes" and minimize (or abolish) the role of government in various areas. There is a strong emphasis on property rights, and therefore a dislike of taxation.


Thanks, the discussion makes more sense to me now.



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09 Sep 2008, 6:37 pm

bobbob94 wrote:
Orwell wrote:
Oh, sorry, US Libertarianism is what I was referring to. Some are anarchist, but most aren't. Basically, the general philosophy is to abolish all laws concerning "victimless crimes" and minimize (or abolish) the role of government in various areas. There is a strong emphasis on property rights, and therefore a dislike of taxation.


Thanks, the discussion makes more sense to me now.

They're much like conservative in the U.S. except they don't throw religion into the bag. They bare more in common with the paleoconservatives of old.



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09 Sep 2008, 8:07 pm

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They're much like conservative in the U.S. except they don't throw religion into the bag. They bare more in common with the paleoconservatives of old.

Depends on the libertarian. Some are more like old conservatives, others can be sort of weird, especially the more anarchistic ones. I mean, a fellow trying to privatize law and order and legalize heroin will be a lot different than any conservative I've run into.