Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by hilbert42 on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:56PM
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"There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property"
Oh yes there are! As Cory Doctorow has suggested, the average person couldn't care less about intellectual property/copyright, and this has always been so. Thus, you're never going to see people out demonstrating on the street over it.
The argument for intellectual property is that with most of the population AWOL over the matter, the few who do care are free to lobby politicians to strengthen IP and then proceed to rip us off with even further impunity. And I'm sure they consider our collective ambivalence a damn good argument for keeping it.
Oh yes there are! As Cory Doctorow has suggested, the average person couldn't care less about intellectual property/copyright, and this has always been so. Thus, you're never going to see people out demonstrating on the street over it.
The argument for intellectual property is that with most of the population AWOL over the matter, the few who do care are free to lobby politicians to strengthen IP and then proceed to rip us off with even further impunity. And I'm sure they consider our collective ambivalence a damn good argument for keeping it.