[VIDEO] Ted Cruz on Intellectual "Property"

[Matt Collins]

http://americasfuture.org/freethefuture/2013/07/05/ted-cruz-on-intellectual-property/

[QuickZ06]

We need to be vigorous in protecting intellectual property

:rolleyes:

[familydog]

Ted Cruz is a putz. I am surprised he didn't use the tired "it's in the Constitution, therefore it's valid!!11" line.

[FrankRep]

I predict a 100 page thread with libertarians whining about Intellectual Property rights.

[QuickZ06]

I predict a 100 page thread with libertarians whining about Intellectual Property rights.

Cruz?? Is that you? ;)

[The Free Hornet]

I predict a 100 page thread with libertarians whining about Intellectual Property rights.

This is about information control not the so-called "IP rights". The tools, technology, and legal framework for monitoring and prevention of IP violations will work equally well for political dissent, policing anonymous speech, suppressing information, and distributing propaganda (most notably in this area, FBI and MPAA copyright warnings and related propaganda).

I don't advise people to pirate Microsoft or Adobe. I advise them to seek out free (as in speech), open source alternatives. Patronize the artists who respect your rights, whenever possible. Cancel your cable/dish as that will automatically and monthly deduct money from your account and place it the hands of MSM media conglomerates.

They will also ensure that a large networks (ISPs) stay in corporate controlled hands for constant monitoring. I predict inexpensive and ubiquitous wireless (using the state confiscated EM spectrum) mesh networking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network) will be opposed. Cables/wires will be run by those with "franchise rights".


He then takes time to describe what he personally loves about the free market system including Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” and the incredible mobility that comes with liberty and a free market and enables individuals to work hard and make use of their talents to the best of their ability.

http://americasfuture.org/freethefuture/2013/07/05/ted-cruz-on-intellectual-property/
[If he gave a damn about creative destruction, he'd stop protecting the "king's right"]



As the "menace" of printing spread, governments established centralized control mechanisms,[12] and in 1557 the English Crown thought to stem the flow of seditious and heretical books by chartering the Stationers' Company. The right to print was limited to the members of that guild, and thirty years later the Star Chamber was chartered to curtail the "greate enormities and abuses" of "dyvers contentyous and disorderlye persons professinge the arte or mystere of pryntinge or selling of books." The right to print was restricted to two universities and to the 21 existing printers in the city of London, which had 53 printing presses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law#Early_privileges_and_mono polies
[the free flow of information! the horror!]


The mobile phone patents (of which there are thousands), exist to ensure that only the big boys play this game:

http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/0817_POST-1_Mobile-Patents.jpg

[heavenlyboy34]

Thanks for that^^, THF. :) Frank seems to be one of many who haven't taken the time to study the subject, or he would understand the corporatist/statist nature of IP.

[Warlord]

Cruz also wants to invade Syria to secure their gas weapons. I kid you not. He's a lunatic.

[Nobexliberty]

I thought Ted Cruz was a baseball player.

[heavenlyboy34]

http://americasfuture.org/freethefuture/2013/07/05/ted-cruz-on-intellectual-property/
Just listened to this, and OMG LOL! SMH. Facepalm.

[Nobexliberty]

Cruz also wants to invade Syria to secure their gas weapons. I kid you not. He's a lunatic.What if someone said Syria should invade America because of their WMDs, basicly the same but with the coin flipped.

[Occam's Banana]

I predict a 100 page thread with libertarians whining about Intellectual Property rights.

I "postdict" a thread (of any number of pages) with someone whining about "libertarians whining about Intellectual Property rights."

Oh! Well, lookee here! Guess I called that one ...

[TaftFan]

I thought Ted Cruz was a baseball player.

Nelson Cruz.

[Nobexliberty]

Nelson Cruz. I am silly :)

[gwax23]

While I am against IP this issue is controversial even with the Libertarian camp. So if someone who leans Libertarian is more supportive of IP laws well then 1- its not surprising and 2- is not one of my primary issues I expect him to be good on.