Re:Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay ...
by niels_olson on Friday December 02, 2011 @01:38PM
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Thanks for the article! My fundamental reason for not arguing deontologically, just as a rule of thumb in life, is that such systems suffer tremendous instabilities stemming from the nuances of their axioms and the higher your construction, the further they fall.
That actually seems even less defensible than the normal pragmatic, consequentialist position. See Koepsell and Wilson, as summarised in this article: http://www.hxa.name/articles/content/copyright-ethics-agains...
Also, one can see a simple question that no moral argument for copyright/IP seems able to answer: why impose a restriction on a beneficial abundance? (where there is no need and no gain). Copyright creates an entirely artificial restriction. How can there be duty in that, or derivable from that? Why would we want to make a rule to restrict a beneficial abundance? It does not seem possible for that to make much rational sense.