Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates

Re:Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates by EGreg on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:39PM (#18186522)

Oh please. Are people not deprived of drug research that people around the world would do on the long tail if Big Pharma didn’t chill their activities? Is it good for the world that innovation is restricted by force to US Big Pharma?

“But if we didn’t have government, who would build the roads???”

“But if we didn’t have copyright, who would write all the software and encyclopedias?!? Oh wait...”

If you make a moral argument about a pirate in the system, prepare to get an opposing moral argument about the system itself.

How many people could have been cured of Malaria if we allowed open source drug research to flourish? In every OTHER science department eg physics people publish their ideas freely.

But how is that possible without patents???

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Re:Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates by cwkoss on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:54PM (#18190256)

Just need to change drug regulations. Make solid frameworks for doctors/patients to evaluate risks of untested or partially tested drugs, and let them make their own decisions.

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