Johannessen Design Bureau

This entry is here to lend some support and PageRank to a worthy cause. Jarle Dahl Bergersen recently received a “Cease and Desist” letter from Nikkens Swedish representative. If you know me, you know I don’t much care for the concept of “intellectual property” (sic) in the first place. Seeing it abused like this just reconfirms my believes that the whole system has gone bad and need to be replaced. So I guess I’ve broken some law or other now, and I fully expect some Nikken cartoony to send me my very own letter. Feel free.

Links:

http://db.org/2004/01/11/property-and-technology/
http://english.kakeboksen.org/archives/000310.html

Asbjørn Bjørnstad posted the following pearl to rec.photo.digital:

Funny how technology changes things. First you could count your things, and if something was missing, someone had stolen it. Simple.

Later, you could count other peoples things, and if they had something that was exactly what you had, then they had stolen it.

Now you look at peoples things, and if they have a map to where your stuff is, they have stolen it.