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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
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.
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It is very easy to claim a "vast swathe of the population's opinion" to be on your side. They are not. Sure, if you pose the question as "do you want free stuff and stick it to those greedy corporations" most will say yes, without thinking. But if you turn it around and ask "do you think authors and all those involved in the book publishing and book selling industries should work for free" then the answer would turn out to be very different.