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Re:SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill by CJefferson on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:54PM (#3494937)
Thanks for your reply.

I don't really understand the difference you place between physical property, and intellectual property. My ownership of both is imposed by the government. Without government support, I am sure I would lose control of both my physical and intellectual property very quickly (unless, in both cases, I started shooting people who tried to take them).

Re:SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill by mrdingle on Sunday January 22, 2012 @11:11AM (#3496845)
You don't own "Intellectual Property". You own a temporary monopoly on its reproduction in certain circumstances. But the creative work itself you don't own. Sure, if you paint a painting, you own the physical canvas, paint, and wood frame. Those are your property. But the depicted image? You don't own that. You own its copyright. Which is that temporary monopoly I described before.