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Originally Posted by HarryT
Absolutely right. It's like companies who illegally produce unlicenced versions of drugs. A drug might only cost pennies to manufacture, but it can cost hundreds of millions of $ to come up with in the first place. Unless the legal framework allows that money to be recouped, the result will inevitably be "no more new drugs". That is patent law, not copyright, but the principle is the same.
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Pennicillin, aspirin, interferon...all discovered without Big Pharma "R&D."
I think we can do without more drugs for "Restless Leg Syndrome." Big Pharma hasn't cured a disease in decades. It's not profitable, and Regan's de-regulation of the FDA meant they were no longer legally obligated to.