Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--6a7d75-Look, what we are doing is try/en

Look, what we are doing is trying, through legal institutions directed at the protection of a commons, to prevent that commons from suffering tragedy. Because the content of that commons is capable of renewal and has zero marginal cost, the tragedy we're trying to prevent is not Garrett Hardin's one, which was based upon the inherent exhaustibility of natural resources of certain kinds. But there is no question that the commons that we are making is capable of being appropriated and destroyed in the ways that you suggest.