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Monopolies Are Not Justified By Theory; They Should Be Permitted Only When Justified By Facts. If There Is No Solid Basis For Extending A Certain Monopoly Protection, Then We Should Not Extend That Protection. 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. Before The Monopoly Should Be Permitted, There Must Be Reason To Believe It Will Do Some Good -- For Society, And Not Just For Monopoly Holders.

The War Against Illegal File-sharing Is Like The Church's Age-old War Against Masturbation. It's A War You Just Can't Win.

For However Much The State May Gain By Not Having To Fund Roads On Its Own, Society Would Lose In Aggregate If The Open Commons Of Transportation Were Lost.

I Am A Big Supporter Of Experiments To Complement Representative Gov't With Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens, Sure. I Think Most Americans Would Be Surprised To Learn Just How Much Better We Are At Gov't Than Our Gov't.

The Current Term Of Protection For Software Is The Life Of An Author Plus 70 Years, Or, If It's Work-for-hire, A Total Of 95 Years. This Is A Bastardization Of The Constitution's Requirement That Copyright Be For "limited Times."