John Perry Barlow Quotes
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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
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The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
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I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
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I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
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Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
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They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
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There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
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I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.
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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
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Polyamory - that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.