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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Intellectual property, on the other hand is meaningless without government. Anyone who sees your book can make copies, and there is nothing you can do about it. It is only government that could prevent people from making copies.
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A government can only ask you to not make a copy, and they can also expend much effort into enforcing this no copying restriction, but they cannot actually make anyone not copy anything. Whether or not someone is going to do something is entirely up to them, as it has always been.