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Re:The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The St... by noonespecial on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @03:23AM (#6171335)
We were having a rather similar discussion around here just the other day. It boiled down to:

What if property rights were "packet switched" instead of "circuit switched"? (1)

We're still at the stage where our modems whistle at each other when it comes to "property". The future is going to be positively sci-fi.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_switching#Compared_to_d...

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Re:The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The St... by rubidium on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:56AM (#6171946)
To whom would ownership revert if one didn't pay?

That seems to be the preventing mechanism of "packet switched", unless people have liquid capital to be able to buy and sell large properties.

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