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Before The Monopoly Should Be Permitted, There Must Be Reason To Believe It Will Do Some Good - For Society, And Not Just For Monopoly Holders.

I Advocate For Protecting The Liberty Of The Net, And Securing Privacy. I Argue Against People Who Believe Both Are Somehow Given Automatically. They're Not.

Of All The Creative Work Produced By Humans Anywhere, A Tiny Fraction Has Continuing Commercial Value. For That Tiny Fraction, The Copyright Is A Crucially Important Legal Device.

I Am A Big Supporter Of Experiments To Complement Representative Gov't With Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens, Sure. I Think Most Americans Would Be Surprised To Learn Just How Much Better We Are At Gov't Than Our Gov't.

We Live In A World With "free" Content, And This Freedom Is Not An Imperfection. We Listen To The Radio Without Paying For The Songs We Hear; We Hear Friends Humming Tunes That They Have Not Licensed. We Tell Jokes That Reference Movie Plots Without The Permission Of The Directors. We Read Our Children Books, Borrowed From A Library, Without Paying The Original Copyright Holder For The Performance Rights.