Today is Internet Blackout Day

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If you tried to visit Wikipedia today, you probably were quite disappointed since you saw a page much like this:

New Copyright Rules Released

Intellectual property, especially copyright and patents, is purely fictitious, a construction of the State. Stephan Kinsella has definitively proved such in his paper Against Intellectual Property. Nevertheless, the US government continues to prop up this inefficient and unethical practice. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many lives have been ruined by the bad side of [...]

The Limits of Intellectual Property

Introduction Intellectual property is the presumed right of the creator of an idea to certain controls over all the physical forms in which his idea is recorded. The extent of this control may be different depending on whether the idea is considered to be copyrighted, patented, or trademarked, but the essential principle is the same [...]