{"id":287,"date":"2012-05-27T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=287"},"modified":"2012-05-27T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:05:26","slug":"stolyarov-retransmission-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/05\/stolyarov-retransmission-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Stolyarov Quoted in Two Heartlander Articles on The Pirate Bay and Retransmission Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><big>May 27, 2012<\/big><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/recform.php\" target=\"page\">Recommend this page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am pleased to have again been quoted in Heartlander Magazine. Two articles by Kenneth Artz \u2013 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.heartland.org\/newspaper-article\/pirate-bay-encourages-vpns-illegal-file-sharing\">Pirate Bay Encourages VPNs for Illegal File Sharing<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.heartland.org\/newspaper-article\/retransmission-dispute-results-nd-mn-blackouts\">Retransmission Dispute Results in ND, MN Blackouts<\/a>\u201d\u2013 include comments from me, providing a rational, liberty-oriented perspective. I encourage you to read and share both articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Regarding The Pirate Bay, I go a step further to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/books\/against.pdf\">Stephan Kinsella\u2019s argument<\/a> that \u201cintellectual property\u201d is not a legitimate application of private-property rights. Property arises out of scarcity. The reason that tangible goods are legitimate property is that one person\u2019s use of a particular good necessarily diminishes another\u2019s ability to use it. The same is not true for files that can be reproduced indefinitely. One person\u2019s copying of a file does not diminish another\u2019s ability to use or enjoy it. Therefore, enforcement of intellectual-property laws constitutes a punishment of victimless crimes. The practical effect of such punishment is a more tyrannical and less technological society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II May 27, 2012 Recommend this page. ****************************** I am pleased to have again been quoted in Heartlander Magazine. Two articles by Kenneth Artz \u2013 \u201cPirate Bay Encourages VPNs for Illegal File Sharing\u201d and \u201cRetransmission Dispute Results in ND, MN Blackouts\u201d\u2013 include comments from me, providing a rational, liberty-oriented perspective. I encourage you to read and share both articles. Regarding The Pirate Bay, I go a step further to agree with Stephan Kinsella\u2019s argument that \u201cintellectual property\u201d is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/05\/stolyarov-retransmission-fees\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7,356],"tags":[595,585,590,586,359,593,588,40,596,207,360,584,30,59,592,228,587,594,529,597,591,589],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2","category-economics","category-technology-2","tag-blackouts","tag-business-models","tag-cable","tag-copying","tag-copyright","tag-file-sharing","tag-files","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-heartland-institute","tag-heartlander-magazine","tag-intellectual-property","tag-kenneth-artz","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-pirate-bay","tag-private-property","tag-property-rights","tag-retransmission-fees","tag-scarcity","tag-stephan-kinsella","tag-television","tag-vpns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}