Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing

[Lluis]

El Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:34:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann ens deleità amb les 
següents paraules:
> At Mon, 01 May 2006 09:58:19 -0400, 
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My expected outcome was that the ethical issue has nothing to do with 
>> whether the artifact is digital. It entirely has to do with the marginal 
>> cost of reproduction (to the initial holder) being zero, and the belief 
>> that creating artificial scarcity is fundamentally unethical.
>> 
>> I am still not 100% certain, but I think that this is actually where 
>> Marcus and I ended up.
> 
> Sounds about right, however, there is an extra dimension, which I 
> pointed out and you omitted above.  There must be a public interest in 
> the artifact.  Otherwise, it would be impossible to be consistent with 
> the above and defend some amount of privacy, too.

Right, that's why I talked about culture and knowledge (which are two words 
but with a common root), which are (should?) be of public interest, and 
that's why I also talked about IT investement on the public administration 
(my digression was not so away of the main theme ;))

For me, any intent of exclusive and (or?) abusive ownership on those cases 
(free or marginal cost of reproduction of "things" on the public interest 
- and the majority of these happen to be on their digital representation)
is unethical (but it's clearly not immoral, as I think the society 
percieves it).

Anyway, _I think_ we all see this (with or without agreement), so no more 
discussion about this should follow to maintain a good SNR (if you agree 
with me that it's clear, of course; I don't want to obligate nobody to stop 
talking).

And I'm the first to break my own rule of good SNR keeping... :)

Read you,
  Lluis

PS: [offtopic] there's an interesting project from a friend (although I 
don't advocate for it; I think my personal life is just that, personal), 
called BlogMail (http://www.blogmail.cc) which tries to push free 
information to enhance knowledge to the limit, where the mailbox is in a 
Blog-form so supposedly everybody can learn from other people's experiences 
(the project is in spanish for now, but)

-- 
 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
 something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
 -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom
 Tollbooth
 
 Listening: Lacrimosa (Der Morgen Danach (Single)) - 3. Nichts Bewegt Sich