SOPA is the Symptom, Copyright is the Disease: The SOPA wakeup call to ABOLISH COPYRIGHT

by Stephan Kinsella January 24, 2012

Over at C4SIF, I’ve blogged quite a bit lately about SOPA and PIPA and the recent Internet blackouts and other protests against these bills, which threaten free speech and the open Internet (Mike Masnick et al. at Techdirt have also been great on exposing and analyzing SOPA). As Jeff Tucker noted recently, the protests against [...]

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Kinsella on FreeTalkLive re SOPA and IP

by Stephan Kinsella January 23, 2012

Last night I appeared for two hours on FreeTalkLive (1-22-12 show), with hosts Mark Edge and Stephanie. We discussed intellectual property and SOPA. (Audio)

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The Perils of Positive Law

by Isaac Bergman January 20, 2012

Just a couple days ago the New York City council voted to ban the practice by sanitation workers to sticker the window of vehicles that were violating the alternate-side street cleaning rules. Whilst the vehicle’s owner would still receive a parking violation fine, they are no longer allowed to punish drivers by defacing their vehicles with the [...]

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A New Libertarian Publication: The Journal of Peace, Prosperity & Freedom

by Stephan Kinsella January 20, 2012

As the post below, from Liberty Australia, notes, another scholarly libertarian journal is in the works. It joins existing journals such as Libertarian Papers, The Independent Review, and Reason Papers, as another outlet for scholarly articles on the topic of liberty and related fields like Austrian economics, with a focus on Australia. Journal of Peace, Prosperity [...]

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Crowd Cheers Loudly As All Four GOP Candidates Say No To SOPA/PIPA: Translating the Candidates’ Answers

by Stephan Kinsella January 20, 2012

Mike Masnick has this interesting post up today at Techdirt: Crowd Cheers Loudly As All Four GOP Candidates Say No To SOPA/PIPA from the national-issue dept It really was just a few weeks ago that a Hollywood lobbyist laughed at me (literally) when I suggested that SOPA/PIPA might become a national issue during the Presidential [...]

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TLS Podcast Picks: Stealth of Nations; SOPA

by Stephan Kinsella January 19, 2012

Recommended podcasts: “The Global Rise of the Informal Economy,” Slate’s The Afterword (Dec. 31, 2011): an interview with Robert Neuwirth, author of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, who argues that “one-half the world’s workers—close to 1.8 billion people—are involved in the informal economy in jobs that are ‘neither registered nor [...]

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The Disingenuous “Liberty Isn’t the Only Value” Attack by Liberals and Conservatives on Libertarianism

by Stephan Kinsella January 17, 2012

In recent years and months, both Austrian economics and libertarianism have received increased attention and criticism. The more recent attention is probably in part due to Ron Paul’s visibility and his publicizing both types of ideas. I suppose it’s a good sign that they are no longer ignoring us. Now they feel compelled to respond. [...]

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