Overregulation Corrupts Citizens And Weakens The Rule

This Does Not Mean That Every Copyright Must Prove Its Value Initially. That Would Be A Far Too Cumbersome System Of Control. But It Does Mean That Every System Or Category Of Copyright Or Patent Should Prove Its Worth.

I'm All For Experimenting With Sortition - Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens. But I Don't Favor Direct Democracy. We're Busy. We Have Lives. There Is Reddit. Who Has Time To Work Out The Right Answer To The Thousand Policy Choices A Gov't Must Make All The Time?

We Live In A World With "free" Content, And This Freedom Is Not An Imperfection. We Listen To The Radio Without Paying For The Songs We Hear; We Hear Friends Humming Tunes That They Have Not Licensed. We Tell Jokes That Reference Movie Plots Without The Permission Of The Directors. We Read Our Children Books, Borrowed From A Library, Without Paying The Original Copyright Holder For The Performance Rights.

Code Plus Law Is Combining To Reduce Rights Consumers Used To Have.

I Spend As Little Time With Lawmakers As Possible. Many Are Great. And More Than You Expect Want Real Change. But They're Not Going To Do Anything Till We, The Outsiders, Force Them To Adopt It.