Legitimacy in and of the Ownership Society

Tom Matrullo:

For the record co's, the thing that makes their pay-for-it files "legitimate" has nothing to do with the listener, or with the music, or with the quality of the file. It has to do with the contractual relationship of the corporation to the property.

This is the working definition of legitimacy in USia. It's also the reason we have no culture, no community, and no public forums for consensual intelligence. Legitimacy by contract is not love. It is the blood of USia, and it's poison.

If ownership is theft what does that make philanthropy?

Added later: Tom responds.

Comments

[bmo]

accessorizing after the fete

[phil]

What does one wear to the charity ball? Does this handbag go with my tight little smile?