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ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo
7th November 2011, 21:54
In the future there are a few pieces of software tailored to different industries to design robots that would best fit a certain area for that business.

Examples would be X-software by Y-company that designs robots to serve in restaurants, and A-Software by B company that makes agricultural-robot planning software and M-software made by N-company that replaces cashiers. Toss in more letters from other alphabets to make foreign companies too.

The ethical dilemma to the anarchist comes not from to torrent or not to torrent, merely which is really important: that the information is free and corporate control damaged or that the people that this software would affect by losing their jobs might not have safety nets?

But let's put that aside for now.

Another one would be if you decide to pirate these pieces of automation-designing software, should you give some priority over others? Perhaps one industry needs the piracy fire to turn up the heat so they innovate? Perhaps another industry is going through major labour unrest and it would be better to take the software off seeding so they can protest without that threat to their jobs on their minds?

Maybe we can look at these kind of ideas clearer when they get closer, but since I'm not an economist I needed some input on this.

ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo
8th November 2011, 21:46
Perhaps this was the wrong subforum but maybe someone can tell me what other place to post this in?

Ocean Seal
8th November 2011, 22:07
In the future there are a few pieces of software tailored to different industries to design robots that would best fit a certain area for that business.

Examples would be X-software by Y-company that designs robots to serve in restaurants, and A-Software by B company that makes agricultural-robot planning software and M-software made by N-company that replaces cashiers. Toss in more letters from other alphabets to make foreign companies too.

The ethical dilemma to the anarchist comes not from to torrent or not to torrent, merely which is really important: that the information is free and corporate control damaged or that the people that this software would affect by losing their jobs might not have safety nets?

But let's put that aside for now.

Another one would be if you decide to pirate these pieces of automation-designing software, should you give some priority over others? Perhaps one industry needs the piracy fire to turn up the heat so they innovate? Perhaps another industry is going through major labour unrest and it would be better to take the software off seeding so they can protest without that threat to their jobs on their minds?

Maybe we can look at these kind of ideas clearer when they get closer, but since I'm not an economist I needed some input on this.
Yes, pirate everything. Its not a moral decision. Piracy leads to abundance, markets hold back digital proliferation. Piracy is the beginning of communism.