There have been a couple of interesting posts over at Samizdata about the whole vexed question of intellectual property rights, copyright, etc, one about a (revived apparently) scheme by the Disney corporation to try selling auto-destructive DVDs, basically so that you don't have to return your DVD to the rental store anymore. It lasts for two days and then you just chuck it away.

And the other was a more substantial piece about the whole attitude of libertarians (a category which includes me) towards the whole business of music file-copying, CD copying, etc.

The comments to these postings, especially to the second one, are a pretty good summary of the arguments that rage around this issue.

Is it worth this blog, with its miniscule trickle of writings and readers, flagging up two of the postings of a mighty gusher like Samizdata? Well, I like to think that there are some who come here but don't go there, and since stuff accumulates here more slowly, it may also be said to "last longer", so a connection from here to these two postings, soon to be under a pile of new Samizdata stuff, might be helpful. I hope so.