Re:Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS D...
by Zigurd on Friday April 26, 2013 @08:59AM
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At least you are consistent: You make our rights a creation of government. This has the interesting side-effect of elevating intellectual property to the same level as real property.
You have to wonder if the framers talked about our actual natural rights in such disrespectful terms: "The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitement to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
What people have in the absence of government is not property, but merely possession. No more or less binding on anyone else than a dog with a bone.