Nexicon Inc. (fka NXCO)

[downsideup]

NXCO is at an interesting nexus... involved in defining a new intersection between a web enabled free market and the law in enabling defense of ephemeral property rights. Intellectual property rights have suffered mightily in recent years... while a growing divide has been created between creators and the corporate beneficiaries of government policies transferring value from creators to aggregators. Musicians and authors are among the creators who suffer from the growth in power on the part of the elite Eisenhower warned us about only in part. I wouldn't say they are the most important part of the problem... but, they occupy a place in the culture that forces leadership on them.

It may seem counter-intuitive to some here, but the free market functions NXCO enables... inherently contain the seeds of a lot of creative destruction that libertarians will gladly embrace as a viral, and unavoidable, extension of web culture into the DNA of the existing non-web based institutional structures. When artists can use the web both to sell their products direct to consumers, and can do that while also protecting themselves from infringement of their rights without the need to "pay for protection" in the old market sense... it fosters an already ongoing shift in the balance that favors the creative at the expense of the powerful who are not. The future of the web isn't all and only about avoidance of oversight that is used only by the state to suppress individual freedom, but is also about enabling freedom by altering the functions of oversight... in ways that expand and protect our rights and in ways that are disruptive of the existing order.

I don't find it useful to encourage "absolute freedom"... when what that intends is to justify violating others rights while avoiding any constraint in the effort to violate them.

It isn't that everyone here as a long must be intrinsically anti-EFF, for instance. It might be as much or more about supporting the necessary efforts that ensure we engage in the right conflicts... than it is about the need for achieving unilateralism in any particular result.