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Most Libertarians Are Worried About Government But Not Worried About Business. I Think We Need To Be Worrying About Business In Exactly The Same Way We Are Worrying About Government.

One Can Imagine The Government's Problem. This Is All Pretty Magical Stuff To Them. If I Were Trying To Terminate The Operations Of A Witch Coven, I'd Probably Seize Everything In Sight. How Would I Tell The Ordinary Household Brooms From The Getaway Vehicles?

Imagine Discovering A Continent So Vast That It May Have No End To Its Dimensions. Imagine A New World With More Resources Than All Our Future Greed Might Exhaust, More Opportunities Than There Will Ever Be Entrepreneurs Enough To Exploit, And A Peculiar Kind Of Real Estate That Expands With Development. Imagine A Place Where Trespassers Leave No Footprints, Where Goods Can Be Stolen Infinite Number Of Times And Yet Remain In The Possession Of Their Original Owners, Where Business You Never Heard Of Can Own The History Of Your Personal Affairs.

The First Serious Infowar Is Now Engaged. The Field Of Battle Is Wikileaks. You Are The Troops.

I Personally Think Intellectual Property Is An Oxymoron. Physical Objects Have A Completely Different Natural Economy Than Intellectual Goods. It's A Tricky Thing To Try To Own Something That Remains In Your Possession Even After You Give It To Many Others.