Stan Liebowitz is one of those economists against filesharing. He’s just published an entertaining paper where he claims that “All technologies that break the linkage between usage and payment are parasitic”. His main example is, of course, filesharing. So payment is productive but destroying the possibility of direct payment is parasitic, non-creative and unproductive? One more quote: “without property rights, civilization would come to an end.” Ok, I give up. He’s a politician these days, not an economist. EFFI should send him this shirt.
