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    11 months ago

    If there is no incentive to make profits on IP, nobody will hire people to develop the IP. Congrats, you made the rich lose their profits but you also made everyone lose their jobs.

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        11 months ago

        IP law was invented when it became necessary to protect it. We no longer live in a cave but in a globalized and industrialized world economy.

        Most value nowadays is IP. Producing goods is easy, everyone can do that now. Manufacturing is easy. Logistics is easy. Inventing stuff is NOT easy anymore in a digitalized world! So in order to encourage innovation, we need to have incentives that protects your innovation and pays your bills. And since most innovation is IP, we need IP protection. Simple logic. The alternative would be total economical collapse.

        Your idealistic world view simply doesn’t work in this day and age.