++1 - Brian
Sent from my iPad On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:05 PM, "Mike Jones" <m...@mikejones.in> wrote: > On 28 October 2011 16:41, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: >> You *do* realize that for all your nice "Thei Internet Is Not A Commons" >> ranting, the basic problem is that some people (we'll call them spammers) >> *do* >> think that (a) it's a commons (or at least the exact ownership of a given >> chunk is irrelevant), and (b) they're allowed to graze their sheep upon it. > > If someone keeps putting their animals in my garden then some > countries would permit me to shoot them and sue the owner for the cost > of the bullets. Even those with more restrictive property rights laws > would still permit me to throw them off of my land and sue the owner > for any damage they caused me. > > On the Internet when people start shooting their sheep they think they > are the victims and go to the dutch police, sorry i mean the police of > whichever jurisdiction the hypothetical entity is from, complaining > that they are being deprived of their right to abuse peoples gardens. > > - Mike >
