Comments on: Your Right to Resell Your Own Stuff is in Peril

By: Kate Russell

Kate Russell — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:02:00 +0000

The rules of law and property are essential for a society which encourages its members to be productive. If I write a book, which I have, and do not own the rights to that book, then I have no motive for writing. At the same time, the First-Sale Doctrine is the only sensible way of allowing individuals the right to do with their personal property as they choose. Taking away a person’s right to own, and dispose of as they choose, property of any type is a major step toward slavery.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:24:00 +0000

I am for patent’s but I am also for public domain. At what point does a patent last to long? 10,20,200 years? It seems patent’s never run out anymore. If the establishment is going to make never ending patents I am going to support no patents at all.

By: Michael Suede

Michael Suede — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:05:00 +0000

I don’t think I’m the one making specious arguments here.

Did you listen to Kinsella’s lecture?

Of course not.

Did you go to the Mises Institute’s website and learn about the economic impacts of copyright laws before you sat down at your keyboard and pounded out your opinion on the subject?

Of course not.

Of course, that’s to be expected.

By: ResearchGuy

ResearchGuy — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:11:00 +0000

I’m a libertarian. But the specious arguments here ignore the reality that it’s America’s patent and copyright laws that made it the number one producer of fantastic new inventions for the last two centuries. If you don’t protect intellectual property, you will remove the incentive for people to work hard enough to not just have an idea, but do the grinding grunt work to implement it to the point where it is a successful product in the market. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Functioning products and services that people want to buy are a whole ‘nuther animal.

With that said, RIAA and the public officials that it bought off (or started to buy off) goes entirely too far, with the threat or reality of removing your website on the mere allegation of copyright violation. We are innocent until proven guilty. No prior restraint.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:19:00 +0000

A good reason to buy stuff made in the U.S.A.

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» Big Government Report — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:21:42 +0000

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By: hcurrie77

hcurrie77 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Apparently Our Country
Doesn’t Think We Are Poor Enough
Do we own anything? Our piece of shit greedy country has found a way to rob us of trying to sell our personal shit off by claiming they still own it. Copyright law!? So we dont own our stuff? I am selling my stuff b/c I need money to buy the fuckin ridiculously overly priced gas so I can go to work not b/c I want my grandmothers heirlooms sold off. Fuck you America you are a dirty heartless, greedy, lying, thieving bunch of asses.

By: Vake

Vake — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:13:00 +0000

More common sense on this one page than today’s entire New York Times.