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Originally Posted by PKFFW
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No, you have not. Which, to be completely honest, is why I am so surprised you are finding minutia to disagree with me on.
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Because I completely disagree with your assertion that IP and PP are dissimilar. The rights and remedies for both are defined by law and as a result they have lots in common. Yes, copyright
only has those similarities because of copyright law, but that was the point of introducing the law.
There is no need for weird and wonderful arguments about protecting one or the other with guns or rocks, that stuff is just a distraction, and entirely irrelevant. The law as it exists now has been shown to work (not perfectly, perhaps, but it has been achieving the objectives it was designed to achieve). Claiming it is unworkable seems a very strange thing to do.
Perhaps some centuries ago the "rock in my hand" thing had some merit, but even then it's doubtful because at that time it probably belonged to the King whether you liked it or not.