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Originally Posted by kennyc
What needs to happen is that the laws need to change to insure that intellectual property is treated AS PROPERTY and enforced and managed in as near an identical manner as real property as possible.
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How precisely do you intend to enforce scarcity economics on a non-scarce product? And if you answer DRM, I will laugh in your face.
And - There are societies which functioned for centuries - and some which still exist - which did and do not believe in land ownership. They functioned fine, thank you very much. Society would go on without any form of IP rights, and while think they're appropriate to a degree, I don't pretend they're in any way
necessary.
This is not about "communism" or any of that nonsense, because that still relies on the concept of ownership, just a collective one. Neither have countries which reject - say - software parents (and that's most of them) suffered any particular disaster.
Your "need" seems distinctly non-needy. More a particular philosophy which runs counter to a vast swathe of the population's opinion on the matter. I'll be quite happy to burn your philosophy down in flames should you propose them in the public arena here, since all you'd accomplish is to bring down IP as a whole, at best - and a vast and failing police state, at worst.