I admit it.
I used to believe in cooperative action.
I used to believe in protection.
Regulation.
People having a say in how their lives were run through votes as well as purchases.
But John Stossel made such a good argument on NPR just now ... he has me won over. I was a fool.
I intend to xerox his book, and sell it on street corners during the GOP convention.
After all, the founders never intended copyright to go this far. They couldn't envision xerox machines.
If it's wrong, the market will stop me. The law is oppressive.
For that matter, I think I may selectively edit it on my computer. The founders didn't have computers.
And, I'm a better journalist than Stossel. The market will prove this. I think I will even claim to BE John Stossel. The law was never meant to shield people in this way, because the market will sort out who is whom and whose credit card purchases go to what billing address.
In fact, market forces put me completely above the law, because the founders never envisioned me.
And if that's not true, the market will sort it out. Not the oppressive police and courts that take too much of our money.