Kevin Carson. Artículo original: How NOT to Argue Against the Existence of Monopoly, de 3 de agosto 2021. Traducido al español por Antonio J. Ferrer. Liz Wolfe parece haber reemplazado, en las últimas semanas, a Elizabeth Nolan Brown como la apologista en jefe de las plataformas tecnológicas en Reason. En su artículo más reciente sobre…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 3 agosto 2021 con il titolo How NOT to Argue Against the Existence of Monopoly. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Pare che da qualche settimana Liz Wolfe abbia usurpato il ruolo che era di Elizabeth Nolan di difensore capo delle piattaforme tecnologiche su Reason. Nel suo ultimo articolo sul tema,…

Liz Wolfe, in recent weeks, seems to have displaced Elizabeth Nolan Brown as the chief tech platform apologist at Reason. In her most recent article on this theme, “Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Right: Companies That Dominate Today May Be Gone Tomorrow” (July 26), the general lines of her argument are simple: “Today’s Big Tech…

[Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 21 agosto 2016 con il titolo Why “Reforming” Copyright Will Kill It. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna.] Electronic Frontier Foundation ha recentemente presentato un esposto contro la sezione 1201 della Digital Millennial Copyright Act (DMCA) su basi costituzionali. Secondo l’esposto, la sezione, che criminalizza…

You may be familiar with the role of proprietary automobile diagnostic software in enforcing a repair cartel of the Big Auto manufacturers, dealership mechanics, and auto repair chains and big garages that can afford to license the software. By using closed software that makes it impossible for an independent party to access it, or open…

Somehow left-libertarianism (or at least my article “What Is Left-Libertarianism?” Center for a Stateless Society, June 15, 2014) has come to the attention of Heather Johnson, a Libertarian candidate for Senate in Minnesota. And not in a good way. “Left-libertarianism,” she says on her Facebook page, “is as much bull***t as right-libertarianism,” because it “violates……

“You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a handbag, you wouldn’t steal a television, you wouldn’t steal a movie.” Sounds familiar doesn’t it? For years the copyright industry has been telling us that piracy is a crime. However, recently another supposedly heinous copyright crime has been added to the list: exposing racism. On September…

Não acredite naquela de que os funcionários do estado “trabalham para nós.” Dê uma olhada onde eles trabalharam antes de entrar no “serviço público” e veja para onde eles irão depois disso. Adivinhe só: Eles estão trabalhando lá, também, já agora.

Carson: Don’t fall for the line that state functionaries “work for us.” Take a look at where they worked before they entered “public service” and watch where they go back to afterward. Guess what? They’re working there right now, too.

Carson lê a escritura na parede da Propriedade Intelectual – IP.

Carson reads the writing on the IP wall.

Kevin Carson on the failing business models of state-allied media.