{"id":66,"date":"2006-03-25T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:52:22","slug":"stans-lone-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Stan&#8217;s lone war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Liebowitz is one of those economists against filesharing. He&#8217;s just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pff.org\/issues-pubs\/ip\/bulletins\/bulletin1.2parasite.pdf\">an entertaining paper<\/a> where he claims that &#8220;All technologies that break the linkage between usage and payment are parasitic&#8221;. 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: &#8220;without property rights, civilization would come to an end.&#8221; Ok, I give up. He&#8217;s a politician these days, not an economist. EFFI should send him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.effi.org\/yhdistys\/kannatustuotteet\/pics\/choose_zoom.png\">this shirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Liebowitz is one of those economists against filesharing. He&#8217;s just published an entertaining paper where he claims that &#8220;All technologies that break the linkage between usage and payment are parasitic&#8221;. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stan&#8217;s lone war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}