Thanks.

I look forward to reading “Lessons for the Young Economist”.

There is another alternative textbook in the Austrian and classical liberalism traditions for your consideration. The choice is yours to study just macroeconomics, “MORE THAN LAISSEZ-FAIRE” (2008), or just microeconomics, “The HUMAN ESSENCE of Economics” (2009), or a combination of both macro and micro, “MACRO & MICRO Economics Renewed” (2009).

These can be used as primary or as supplementary textbooks and you will find that they also serve as a very valuable tool for homeschooling.

Let us know how much you make from this venture. Your own book too. I wonder how famous it’s making you languishing in a safe somewhere. But hey! It’s valuable right?

I asked my wife who is a CPA what value does IP have in the GAAP rules etc. for tax and accounting purposes.

The answer was simple:NONE except for product actually sold.

Good luck making a buck on mises2.org

Nothing wrong with that.

“Obviously over time I add new content to balance out what is going wrong here.”

That’s fine, but I’m wondering if you intend to attribute the “new content” you are adding to yourself or someone else. It’s fraud for you to write a Pro-IP rant and claim that Stephan Kinsella wrote it, for example.

“But everything about the site, the look, the header, a lot of the content, everything, is an exact replica…”

Just be aware that if you claim that the staff of the Mises Institute put this page up, you are committing fraud. Be sure not to mislead your visitors.

“Of course, because I would not want my mises2.org being reliant on charity, there will be no giveaways: all literature, copied from your site, will be paid for, I will be pocketing the proceeds.”

That’s fine. Just don’t claim that the proceeds will go to the Mises Institute, or you are again committing fraud.

“There is then the problem of my rival site, mises.org wantonly giving away their booty for free, taking my customers, because they’ve completely mis-interpreted free enterprise, so I gather a gaggle of looting file sharers, clever little buggers, to launch a cyber attack to shut this site down.”

As someone pointed out above, you’ve just committed a crime. Also, good luck getting your content indexed by the search engines in any meaningful way. Or are you also planning to shell out a lot of cash for some black hat SEO?

But, more importantly, have I committed a moral wrong before the cyber attack?

You’re right, of course, and I do 98% of the time. It’s just that the witless monomaniac cracks me up.

At the last one. Your cyber-attack would involve bombarding other people’s scarce physical property (the mises.org server) with electrons.

Seriously, every time this guy wanders onto a thread that has nothing to do with IP, you all just egg him on. Just ignore the idiot already.

It’s a wee way up the thread, so I’ll ask again. Pretend the fate of a free, capitalist world depends on this, because it just might.

Am I doing wrong anywhere in this sequence?

I mirror this site: everything a complete replica – http://mises2.org.

Obviously over time I add new content to balance out what is going wrong here. But everything about the site, the look, the header, a lot of the content, everything, is an exact replica, visitors to the site would know no difference on my – I hesitate to use that word as there is no ‘my’ in anarchist – … sorry, visitors to the site would know no difference on entering my home page than being on this one.

Hey, this site is published under Creative Commons, just like, disconcertingly, the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm ). Nothing wrong with this right; it’s just a copy.

Of course, because I would not want my mises2.org being reliant on charity, there will be no giveaways: all literature, copied from your site, will be paid for, I will be pocketing the proceeds.

There is then the problem of my rival site, mises.org wantonly giving away their booty for free, taking my customers, because they’ve completely mis-interpreted free enterprise, so I gather a gaggle of looting file sharers, clever little buggers, to launch a cyber attack to shut this site down.

At which stage, if any, have I committed a moral wrong in the looters world of no IP? Why?

Surely there is an answer.

Sounds like my Christmas shopping for my younger brother and cousins is already done for 2010!

There would be a huge difference. “http://mises2.org.” would be run by a complete moron.

Am I doing wrong anywhere in this sequence?

I mirror this site: everything a complete replica – http://mises2.org.

Obviously over time I add new content to balance out what is going wrong here. But everything about the site, the look, the header, a lot of the content, everything, is an exact replica, visitors to the site would know no difference on my – I hesitate to use that word as there is no ‘my’ in anarchist – … sorry, visitors to the site would know no difference on my entering the home page than being on this one.

Hey, this site is published under Creative Commons, just like, disconcertingly, the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm ). Nothing wrong with this right; it’s just a copy.

Of course, because I would not want my mises2.org being reliant on charity, there will be no giveaways: all literature, copied from your site, will be paid for, I will be pocketing the proceeds.

There is then the problem of my rival site, mises.org wantonly giving away their booty for free, taking my customers, because they’ve completely mis-interpreted free enterprise, so I gather a gaggle of looting file sharers, clever little buggers, to launch a cyber attack to shut this site down.

At which stage, if any, have I committed a moral wrong in the looters world of no IP? Why?

Re: copyright. Will the Mises Institute use a government law to achieve a monopolistic position in order to extract money from those who would otherwise be happy to learn from the free delivery of an electronic text that would cost us and them nothing? The answer is no.