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This reminds me of a press release the Pirate Bay put out when SOPA was an impending threat; in the press release, the Pirate Bay declared itself the new Hollywood. Pirate Bay pointed out that because of Edison's patents for motion pictures, it was almost impossible to create movies on the East Coast, so studios relocated to California to circumvent the patents. Because copyright also favoured the public at that time, the studios were able to copy old stories and make movies out of them, making them what they are today.
I'm not commenting on whether I think Pirate Bay was making a good point or not, but their press release was pretty amusing.
IP infringement is a lot like porn, it always accompanies/drives new technologies and industries.
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