Before The Monopoly Should Be Permitted, There

It Might Be Crazy To Expect A High Government Official To Speak The Truth. It Might Be Crazy To Believe That Government Policy Will Be Something More Than The Handmaiden Of The Most Powerful Interests. It Might Be Crazy To Argue That We Should Preserve A Tradition That Has Been Part Of Our Tradition For Most Of Our History -- Free Culture. If This Is Crazy, Then Let There Be More Crazies. Soon.

But, Like All Metaphoric Wars, The Copyright Wars Are Not Actual Conflicts Of Survival. Or At Least, They Are Not Conflicts For Survival Of A People Or A Society, Even If They Are Wars Of Survival For Certain Businesses Or, More Accurately, Business Models. Thus We Must Keep I Mind The Other Values Or Objectives That Might Also Be Affected By This War. We Must Make Sure This War Doesn't Cost More Than It Is Worth. We Must Be Sure It Is Winnable, Or Winnable At A Price We're Willing To Pay.

Creation Always Involves Building Upon Something Else. There Is No Art That Doesn't Reuse. And There Will Be Less Art If Every Reuse Is Taxed By The Appropriator.

I'm Pushing For Citizen Equality Not Because Of Some Moral Idea, But Because This Is The Essential Way To Crack The Corruption That Now Makes It So Washington Can't Work.

If Zero Percent Of The Elites Support Something, Very Low Chance It's Going To Pass, If 100% Support Something, Very High Chance It's Going To Pass. Same Thing For Organized Interest Groups. But For The Average Voter, It's A Flat Line. Which Says It Doesn't Matter Whether Zero Percent Of The Public Believes Something Or 100% Of The Average Voters Believe Something - It Doesn't Affect The Probability That That Thing Will Be Enacted.