Free flow of information?

Hey people. I'm starting this thread in relation to this:
http://dis.4chan.org/read/newpol/1293992141/1-40

 I think the flow of information is a MASSIVE issue that is not beeing discussed enough.

So, do you think the flow of information should be totaly unrestricted? Or do you believe there should be laws that protect people from malicious use.

Personaly I would like to see fully unrestricted flow of information one day, but i think that a sudden change in the way we currently manage it could be catastrophical. I believe an good order of abolishing restrictions would be to

a) abolish all copiright and intelectual property laws.
b) make all bank transactions available online
c) enforce transparency in bussinesses and states by forcing them to release all info they manage - including all their financial info.
d) allow some 20 years for the world to digest itself

Please feel free to attack my point of view and add your own. Scepticism is a bless...

>>58, >>56

Mate, I'm a musician and still I'm against intelectual property. There's nothing wrong with selling books or CD's but the way things work right now, the big money usualy goes to publishing houses and the record industry. They're just using our work and us to blag more money from their customers. They 'create' artists to sell them and dispose them when they're done. And don't tell me that these industries don't bring people up and then drop them.

I don't buy books, so I don't know how it works for writters, but I blame the music industry for the shitty music that comes out. At the same time, commercial music hardly ever has something to offer to the musical art/science, it's just a muss-up of techniques and sounds that have initialy been used by underground and/or traditional music. If somebody had a pattent on these chords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVurJFMDUI , a great part of copyrighted music should be illegal!

This is how music and the arts work. Artists steal from each other hoping that someday they will manage to actualy produce something original which is what they will be remembered for. That's why I think it's crazy to have intellectual property on arts. How different is it  from science though?

Very nice short movie from romain gavras on musicians stealing from each other below.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZNqJ9geMJE
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buxTFlfZhwM

I think the above is based on the true story of 'the amen break': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac