RE: What is property and thus why are some things illegal.

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

> (Caveat) First I am neither Marxist nor Anarchist nor do I 
> live in a country that is. Each of these philosophies has a 
> different view on property rights, but neither is one that I 
> care about.
>
> Property (as defined in legal terms) as is associated with 
> servers, routers and information systems in general is known 
> in the law as consisting of "chattels". Servers are chattels. 
> The data are Intellectual Property.

  Ansgar's comments about "putting <x> in a public place" and 
"walking through a mall" indicate that he believes that both shopping
malls and the Internet are commons, not subject to private ownership,
and therefore property rights do not apply.
  I believe he is factually mistaken, in both realms.

David Gillett



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