Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by EvanAnderson on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:14AM (#20810440)

My opinions used to be similar to yours. The current copyright regime in the US, as well as the application of patents to software and "business processes", both feel like abuses and perversions of the original intent of US patent and copyright law.

Having said that, I've become a bit more pragmatic over time. I can see value in limited-time monopolies being granted by statute. (Can you imagine the wacky alternatives that private individuals and companies would write into contracts if "IP" law didn't exist?) Limited-time, being a major sticking-point with me, and something that really needs to fixed under the current US copyright regime.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by pitaj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:24AM (#20810567)

> (Can you imagine the wacky alternatives that private individuals and companies would write into contracts if "IP" law didn't exist?)

There are countless examples of trade secrets that exists in this exact state. These things are already in employment contracts.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by JTbane on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:33AM (#20810692)

Yeah, software patents are absolutely awful.

Source code is like a written recipe, you absolutely should be able to copyright it. But you shouldn't be able to patent it. All software patents do is encourage lawsuits and trolling.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by teddyh on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:20PM (#20822486)

> Source code is like a written recipe, you absolutely should be able to copyright it.

But you can’t copyright recipies, AFAIK.

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