Quote from: Beliathon on June 25, 2014, 04:25:05 PM

Quote from: blatchcorn on June 25, 2014, 03:17:18 PM

There seems to be only two options: 1) allow bitcoin complete freedom 2) make it illegal to accept bitcoin as payment. The second option seems more likely at the moment, be the first is still possible

Making bitcoin illegal may work in some parts of the world for a short period of time, but long term this draconian strategy will prove to be both politically unviable and technically impossible to enforce.

Ditto banning digital culture sharing ("piracy" being the ignorant capitalist slander term).

Agree, long term would not work, just like marijuana prohibition is now crumbling.
But it would be a major setback.

Disagree on the stance of digital files. What you call "sharing" I call "theft".
Artists have a right to get a fair price for their work. I don't see how you
can call for universal rights for basic living necessities while undermining
the means to earn money... unless you just flat out admit being a communist,
in which case your view would at least be internally consistent.