People talk about a world where there's no such thing as copyright because they think that's a winnable battle -- there's very large and wealthy corporations that will take their side on it because they'd benefit from it Nobody says that about abolishing title in fee simple
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You know what would actually make monopoly power impossible, eliminating *property*, not "intellectual property" If there was no such thing as "owning a server" or "owning a datacenter" If all big computers everywhere were public property
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All websites would be government/community websites and anyone could upload anything or download anything and permissions to those physical machines were controlled by a democratic process THEN you couldn't have a Facebook or a Google or a Twitter wielding monopoly power
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Can you actually imagine that world? Is that ANYWHERE on the horizon? You can imagine Congress someday saying "Copyright isn't a thing anymore" but can you imagine Congress saying to Peter Thiel "Uh, excuse me, you can't OWN a server rack, all server racks belong to the people"
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No, of course not Making that the rule would *actually be* communism It would *actually overturn* most of how we think property works in the US, it would probably be impossible without a massive shift in our constitutional order So nobody talks about it
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We talk about abolition of IP as the best we can do, even though as long as *real* property still exists then we still live in a fundamentally capitalist, monopolist society and IP abolition just shuffles tokens around (in many cases, toward people with a ton of existing power)
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