{"article":{"id":1800,"heading":"The Hostile Takeover of the Future","author":"   By Paul Rosenberg","created":"2000-08-17 19:24:26","modified":"2000-08-17 20:07:46","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:07:46","article":"","contact":"rad@gte.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"The book reviewed here--published in early 1999--provides a chilling, well-integrated overview of the devastating consequences of treating everything imagineable as intellectual property owned by private entities--almost always giant corporations.  Throughout history, free public knowledge has been the lifeblood of human existence--and progress.  Would we ever have started using the alphabet if we had to pay every time we used a letter?  What if the inventor of zero charged a fee for using it?","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/hostiletakeoverofthefut.htm","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1800.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":1808,"heading":"But have you read Ayn Rand?","article":"Atlas Shrugged provides a pleasant counterpoint, don't you think?","author":"Free Will","parent_id":1800,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-17 19:46:50","modified":"2000-08-17 20:01:09","fileurl":""},{"id":1815,"heading":"Ayn Rand","article":"Ayn Rand sucks.  She is the most pathetic, \"explioters-rights\" advocate ever.  The entire Libertarian party is the same.  Capitalism is evil to the core. Anarchy Now!","author":"Joe Riot","parent_id":1800,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-17 20:07:46","modified":"2000-08-17 20:20:25","fileurl":""}]}