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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
U.S. law makes it clear that IP needs to be protected, specifically because of people who feel that others do not deserve due compensation for their ideas simply because they are not physical objects, and rob them of "potential sales." (Smart guys, those Founding Fathers.)
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In the nineteenth century, American publishers were some of the biggest literary 'pirates' in the world - and lobbied their government NOT to recognise international copyright.
Now, of course, they're all in favour of enforcing international copyright.
It isn't their morals that have changed; it's their self-interest.