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> the large majority of laissez-faire capitalists still want a government

That may be true, but even a majority doesn't make it true that "Laissez faire capitalists still want a government". You'd have to prepend a "most".

> anarcho-capitalism, not laissez-faire capitalism

All anarcho-capitalists are laissez-faire capitalists, only not all laissez-faire capitalists are anarcho-capitalists.

> My observation is that DRM is essentially independent of copyright or intellectual property

You say "DRM is a technological means to enforce private control independent of the (limited) legal monopoly from copyright. It's legally enforced by the DMCA".

I say "Without government force to back it up, who would care?". The DMCA - Digital Millenium Copyright Act - is a market intervention designed to produce artificial scarcity where naturally there would be none, in order to generate money for government cronies.



> You'd have to prepend a "most".

I don't care about that level of penny-ante pedantry. That's turns every forum into hyper-correctionalist tedium.

As I already quoted, the DMCA DRM clause holds even when there is no copyright infringement. Pointing to the title of the act as evidence is like saying the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy because it has "Democratic" in the name.

> designed to produce artificial scarcity where naturally there would be none

Sure, absolutely. But it isn't due to intellectual property.

We have an artificial scarcity of nuclear weapons too. Just not due to intellectual property laws.


> I don't care about that level of penny-ante pedantry. That's turns every forum into hyper-correctionalist tedium.

And I don't care for sloppy thinking. It leads to all kinds of bad conclusions.

> As I already quoted, the DMCA DRM clause holds even when there is no copyright infringement.

The reason for this is still to protect copyright. Only because the law is so intrusive as to criminalise the step preceding a potential copyright infringement does not change that that is the rationale behind it! [1] [2]

The goal is to simplify enforcement for copyright holders. That under the DMCA, copyright owners do not need to prove that actual infringement occurred, but only need to demonstrate that circumvention of access controls took place, lowers the burden of proof for copyright owners and allows them to take action more swiftly against potential copyright violations. [3]

"If someone breaks the technologies used to protect against copyright infringement the copyright owner need not prove that an infringement took place; all the owner needs to prove is that a violation of the Anti-Circumvention provisions occurred".

> We have an artificial scarcity of nuclear weapons too. Just not due to intellectual property laws.

And?

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intellectual_Property_and_the_...

[2] https://myadultattorney.com/services-item/digital-millennium...

[3] https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...




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