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Re:Cybersquatter email by dreish on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @05:30PM (#84437)
It can generate wealth in markets where accurate prices lead to more efficient allocation of the resources needed to produce the good in question.

That's great for physical commodities, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this doesn't do any good with domain names. It takes a committed libertarian to fail to see that, though.

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Re:Cybersquatter email by noonespecial on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @08:55PM (#84500)
A libertarian would think this kind of thing is repugnent as well. The difference is that a libertartian's first response would not be "we should pass a law forbidding this..."
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Re:Cybersquatter email by Kaizyn on Thursday November 29, 2007 @10:05PM (#84879)
You mean just as speculating in the mortgage securities market has led to economic prosperity? Oh wait...
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Re:Cybersquatter email by falsestprophet on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @09:28PM (#84512)
Investing is not speculating.
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