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I've read in this thread that patents and copyright are applied because the USA are a capitalist country. Socialist countries of the past and the present, for example the actual PRK (North Korea) have a space for copyright in their regulation... and I'd say, of course, as it is yet another limit to the freedom of the people. Patents were supposed to be a defensive weapon for the inventor to avoid being stripped of his "deserved" rents, although there is no such thing as someone who deserves being paid for his work in the first place, at least in a non-socialist country. However, as it's only normal and usual where the State puts its claws, the special interests connected to the state transform that defense into offense. Patents, unlike physical weapons, are expensive enough and hard to acquire so they can only be trolled by the special interests nourished by the state, mainly because, unlike physical weapons, it's only the state who issues them. If that reminds you of why the State forbids individuals in many places to acquire weapons while it trolls the weapon market buying en masse for its mobs (police and armies), you'll start seeing where I'm trying to go.
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