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Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright

by Stephan Kinsella January 19, 2011

Introduction I’ve given several speeches about intellectual property (IP). Tonight I’ll take a somewhat different approach to the subject. Let me ask you a general question. Why are you here at this great (government) school? It’s to have fun, right? But it is also to learn; that is the basic purpose of education: to learn. [...]

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Progressive Egalitarians Should Be Anti-IP

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 1, 2010

The Obama Administration insists that “‘Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft,’ and it should be dealt with accordingly.” Nonsense, of course. Only scarce goods can be property and therefore only scarce goods can be stolen. Ideas or information patterns are nonscarce goods. If I take your bicycle, you don’t have it anymore. If I copy your [...]

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How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 17, 2010

A couple of days ago David mentioned that the Mises Institute providing its entire online media and literature library as a set of free torrents can be seen as part of a distributed or grassroots intellectual guerrilla resistance against the state. This is just one aspect of the Mises Institute’s effort to be completely open [...]

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Mises.org Available as a Torrent Download!

by David J. Heinrich June 15, 2010

The Ludwig von Mises Institute has issued the second release of all of the content on their website as torrent files. This means that you can download all of the content available on Mises.org (as of June 15, 2010) by downloading various torrent files and opening them up with your torrent client (e.g., uTorrent, Vuze, [...]

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