You see copyrights have to do with communication, specifically
with NOT communicating freely.

     The internet and the group mind has to do with communicating
freely.

     So copyrights and the internet are opposed.

     *OWNERSHIP* of information may be preserved in the group mind,
tag it with who originated it, but controlling distribution of it in a
group mind is impossible.

     Controlling distribution of creations is how we lost the group
mind in the first place, "you can have this, but you can't."

     A gives it to B but forbids B from giving it to C, so now A is
building barriers between B and C.

     B and C allowed this to happen so they deserve what they get,
can't talk to each other freely, and A can push pablum all day long to
both.

    Homer

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