Battleangel

Boing Boing: In the age of ebooks, you don’t own your library. It is an argument that ought to be hardwired into the mind of every copyfighter. Simply because the idea of property rights is one of the driving notions behind new and increasingly out-of-control IP legislation. But as it turns out, IP in practical use actually undermines property rights for the masses.

It’s funny that in the name of protecting “intellectual property,” big media companies are willing to do such violence to the idea of real property — arguing that since everything we own, from our t-shirts to our cars to our ebooks, embody someone’s copyright, patent and trademark, that we’re basically just tenant farmers, living on the land of our gracious masters who’ve seen fit to give us a lease on our homes.

And perhaps that is the whole idea. A brilliantly evil way of restoring the proper order of the world to what it has been for the vast majority of recorded history. Just updated for a world where farmland has become deprecated.