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Old 11-07-2011, 05:47 PM   #29
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Quite true. Who will be the next evil, you think? My money's on Google.


And am I the only one who thought This Is My Next was a far cooler name than The Verge?
The real problem with focusing on companies like Apple or Microsoft is that it perpetuates the illusion that the problem is with a few 'bad apple' companies and not with corporate capitalism itself. All this wrangling over intellectual property serves a greater purpose which is the continued hegemony of an elite few (primarily, though not entirely, in the West) via the companies that they control. The west no longer has a monopoly on manufacturing and so must maintain its dominance in other ways. Ensuring that western-friendly intellectual property laws are enforced on a global scale is one aspect of that agenda.
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