Case Against Intellectual Property

Adam explains how the very concept of "intellectual property" is a fiction, a scam. And it flies in the face of real property rights. But that won't stop the government from imposing a twisted morality of stifling innovation on you to make you feel bad for copying things that big corporations don't want you to copy. Well tough! Because the Internet is here to the rescue!

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[Zwerggoldhamster]

There is Intellectual Property.....its called a secret! Everything else should be free for the public!

[coosoorlog]

I consider no property sacred. Any sort of property must be justified in a society separately in terms of its role in securing more fundamental human rights and keeping the society together. While private property is crucial (at least up to a point) in securing privacy and adequate free speech, intellectual property has no such function.

[cosmopolite66]

Copyright on books is the same as monopoly on goods. Imagine only one company is allowed to make bread. This company has the opportunity to dictate to price if the bread. Imagine there is no copyright on books and I wrote a book that I want to sell for $100; than nobody, who cannot afford to pay, will not have it. What if this is a textbook and students need it? Now imagine there was no copyright on textbooks. The some one will copy this textbook and sell it for $33;

[Kaleidomorph]

Intellectual Slavery.

[MirageScience]

You could insentivise research and development for known wants and needs like a cure for cancer by building up a reward though something like a telethon that would be given to the first to provide a solution (an idea) and give it up to the public sphere. After that people would compete to provide the good using the idea in the best mannor.

[acphenom]

@18StrokesPcketCaddy How did you estimate your loss? I don't believe that anyone is entitled to as much as 400 million dollars unless it is expedient to real economic growth - for instance, Steve Jobs, since he is a vital reason for life-enhancing products like iPhones. But for music (for example) there is no natural reward for creating it anymore - only performing it. If you are very good (popular) at it then you have no reason to worry, since you can draw big crowds.

[18StrokesPcketCaddy]

@acphenom It use to be that in order to litigate someone for patent infringement that they must have incurred damages, that is no longer the rule of law as the big corporations have big plans and they put one in place at a time to circle their wagons so-to-speak. They can now sue without having any capital loss and those are called "statutory damages" rather than "compensatory damages". I just Googled the later and my name and picture is there under "compensatory damages" from last week.

[18StrokesPcketCaddy]

Adam, You are on the right path but somewhat misguided direction and here is how! The government does NOT help an inventor stop intellectual property theft. It is up to the individual inventor like me AND it costs the lonely inventor like me 1 to 3 million dollars just to legally enforce and police our own patents (Google it). THIS kills the small inventor! And the inventor SHOULD BE compensated for their invention and it is absurd to think a man's work and investment is to be given away.

[18StrokesPcketCaddy]

I have been illegally pirated in the estimated range of 400 million dollars worldwide. The main issue is that these BILLION dollar corporations expect the private companies, Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo etc. AND the U.S. Government and the 'Private Sectors' tax dollars to do their dirty work and police THEIR privately corporately owned I.P.'s! THAT sir is the outrage! They need to enforce their own I.P.'s with their own resources and believe me, that does change the playing field. James (J.D.)Gragg

[drootshnoot]

I remember watching this when it was first aired, and asking you about it in chat on Patriot Polls. It was tough for me to swallow. I am now reading Ethics of Liberty and...I get it now :)