Property III

Stuff we played with today (from property to privacy):

Video interview with Geohot

Anonymous press release

Some ideas on property

For your blog post, please inventory the ideas about property in the Anonymous press release that you read.  Identify short quotes from the press release and look at and figure out what ideas about property are implicit in them.  What questions are raised?  Then, consider: what do you think about these ideas?

Example:

"Possessing and sharing information."
It seems like Anonymous is claiming that you can "possess" information.  Is information a kind of property?  How can it be a kind of property?  I think it is--that's what intellectual property is.  But is it just my original work that is my information-type property, or can I also "possess" information I learned from somebody else?" (And so on, and so on.)

You should do many of these.  It's good to be able to see lots and lots of the implicit philosophical claims/ideas in a source like this.  :)

The post is due by 9:00 PM on Monday.

This is practice for your final project!  More on your final project soon.