"foobar" <f...@bar.com> wrote in message news:gaeafbliswzwkmitp...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > > 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.
I'm not entirely convinced that the US gov isn't effectively a corporate puppet.
