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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by monocasa on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:50PM (#19994685)
RMS himself is against the idea of intellectual property; it's just that copyleft is the closest you can get in a system that supports IP.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by stordoff on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:38PM (#19995179)
RMS's stance is that he is against the idea of 'intellectual property' as an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks, as it conflates three (or more) largely unrelated areas of law. This does not necessarily mean he is against any of these ideas per se.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by monocasa on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:56PM (#19995324)
Grabbed the wrong rant

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.htm...

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by 0xffff2 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:01PM (#19994818)
My reading of the linked rant is that RMS is against lumping copyright, patents and trademarks under the umbrella of "intellectual property", but not against those things individually. I don't see anything there to support the idea that RMS is against the idea of copyright (that being the section of "IP" that the GPL most directly addresses).
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by monocasa on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:56PM (#19995326)
Grabbed the wrong rant

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.htm...

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