On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 22:50:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, January 23, 2012 17:37:59 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
IP is evil. That's what I love about China: Not much respect
for IP. Thanks
to China's disregard for such things, I have an adaptor that
lets me use the
fantastic DualShock2 on Xbox1, GC or PC. That would *never*
happen in the
US or any heavily-US-influenced country. The corporations and
lawyers just
wouldn't allow it.
IP is not entirely evil. For instance, I think that it's
perfectly legitimate for an author to want to be paid for the
book that they wrote. The same goes for a song or a movie. And
if I write code, and I don't release it under an open source
license, then no one has any business using it without my
permission as long as the copyright holds. The problem is that
companies take it way too far. Too much is protected - the
prime example of this being software patents (it's ludicrous to
patent an idea IMHO) - and companies go too far in protecting
it (e.g. MPAA or RIAA).
The end result is that instead of legitimately protecting
innovation and inventions, IP is now frequently used to stifle
innovation and prevent competition.
The basic concept isn't necessarily bad, but how it's been
applied has gone way too far.
- Jonathan M Davis
IP can't be evil, it's the basic protocol of the internet ;)
seriously though, the term IP is highly misleading and doesn't
have a hold in (legal) reality. It's a collection of unrelated
laws with separate agendas and purposes: copyright, patent,
trademarks. Each individual law *supposed to* make sense, but at
a whole they really don't. Yes, it is perfectly legitimate for an
author/artist/musician/font creator/etc to want to be paid and
they really should be. it is not hover at all legitimate that a
book publisher/record company/etc be paid if that business model
isn't justified anymore in the market place. Forcing those on the
market when they aren't necessary is the true meaning of evil. I
also disagree that it's the companies' fault. They simply want to
make money. That their purpose. The government is the responsible
party to set the rules for corporations and not vice versa and
the US government is completely at fault for this huge mess. It's
like children setting the rule for their parents.
