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Originally Posted by fjtorres
More general: Too many people arguing against IP rights "on principle" arepeople who never created anything worth copyrighting or patenting.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's all a function of whose ox is getting gored and who is getting a free ride
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I'm not sure that these two statements are compatible. Either we argue for IP rights because they're meant to protect something "worth copyrighting or patenting" or we say that there is no such thing and that IP rights are just an excuse for corporations and states to stick fingers-in-eyes in each other in a "beggar thy neighbor" policy (akin to privateers).