I agree, but I don’t know if it would work well today. In the 19th century, the only way to find that someone was living on your land was to either go there yourself, or to hire someone to look for you. That was complicated because even communicating with someone from east coast to west coast was expensive and difficult.
These days you just need to leave a cheap security camera and check in every few months.
I’m trying to think up a scenario where it’s fair. Something so if someone genuinely cares about the place they don’t get screwed, but someone who isn’t local and never visits loses their rights. Also something so the place can go to someone local, and it isn’t easily compromised by someone who lives far away.
I keep thinking that getting this done requires getting rid of the anti-circumvention rules in copyright law. If it’s legal to provide someone with a tool that tricks a home security system, then people can actually buy that tool, use it, and move into the place, and the absent owner won’t be aware.
I agree, but I don’t know if it would work well today. In the 19th century, the only way to find that someone was living on your land was to either go there yourself, or to hire someone to look for you. That was complicated because even communicating with someone from east coast to west coast was expensive and difficult.
These days you just need to leave a cheap security camera and check in every few months.
I’m trying to think up a scenario where it’s fair. Something so if someone genuinely cares about the place they don’t get screwed, but someone who isn’t local and never visits loses their rights. Also something so the place can go to someone local, and it isn’t easily compromised by someone who lives far away.
I keep thinking that getting this done requires getting rid of the anti-circumvention rules in copyright law. If it’s legal to provide someone with a tool that tricks a home security system, then people can actually buy that tool, use it, and move into the place, and the absent owner won’t be aware.