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Originally Posted by PKFFW
I find it hard to take seriously anyone who puts forward the argument that intellectual property is anything like Physical property and therefore should be treated the same.
Let's take a look...
You have an idea, which, if you want to make money from it (which is really what copyright is about after all), you put out into the world. How do you actually stop anyone from "stealing" it and taking that idea and doing absolutely anything they want with it? The answer is, you can't. It simply isn't possible.
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What cogent rational argument can be made that the two situations should be treated differently? Or are you going to argue we should commence paying everyone in perpetuity for the work they do?
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I take my hat off to you.
You have put cogently into words, ideas that I have had bouncing round my head (think can of marbles), but have been unable to marshal effectively.