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Artificial Scarcity Watch: Nathan Myhrvold Edition

By On July 23, 2011

When I wrote the first “Artificial Scarcity Watch” post, I envisioned it as an occasional feature, highlighting some of the trends that led me to cook up Anti-Star Trek. I think I’m going to have to pace myself, though, because otherwise I’ll spend all my time writing about intellectual property run amok. For instance, this [...]

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Artificial Scarcity Watch: JSTOR Edition

By On July 20, 2011

Apparently Internet activist Aaron Swartz has been indicted for downloading articles from JSTOR, the database of academic journal articles. Note that Swartz had legal access to the database through MIT, he’s just being accused of downloading too many articles.

It’s not quite as simple as that, of course. There is some stuff in the indictment about him [...]

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