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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So, at heart, you do not believe that I have the same right to protect my intellectual property as I have to protect, say, my car. Or the hand-crafted bookshelf I built.
(Maybe we need an "Is IP worth protecting?" thread somewhere...)
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Come on, you know full well what I mean.
You don't see the car industry proposing laws as the RIAA does. You have a small segment (this needs to be substantiated somehow) of the economy demanding laws that would radically change the democratic principles of all western countries.
As for your comparison, the right to protect you demand for your IP
far surpasses the rights granted for physical property. The equivalent to our discussion with your example would be:
- If you sold the bookshelf (or a blueprint), you'd install cameras in the house of the person who bought it to make sure he doesn't build a copy.
- Else, you'd install cameras in every house worldwide that has bookshelves (has internet connection), in case they see a picture of your shelf and try to build themselves a copy.
Virtual to physical analogies are hard and error-prone. You can use them to show proportionality of anti-piracy measures but not much more as virtual and physical property differ on a very fundamental level.