Comments on: Study Says Intellectual Property System Should Die

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:31:14 +0000

I’m always amazed at the response people have to IP issues.

For the stupid communist argument people: your idea of eliminating IP is a very communist idea, in the literal sense of the world. You want to share ideas and allow knowledge to advance without limitation. IP is a very capitalist idea: allowing people to make money off of their inventions.

And what’s so wrong with copyright? Giving someone some say for the expresison they create. If I write a song, what right do you have to it? I wrote it for me. Not for the public good.

And pharamceutical companies have advanced the science we all live by through the patent system. It’s worked.

And I guess that’s my big complaint with the anti-IP crowd: How can you say it doesn’t work? Look around. all the content you love? Made with copyright. Funded with copyright. All your technology? Made and patented. Funded through a patent. The IP rights that you want to eliminate help fund further advancement of society.

Let’s not be too hasty in throwing that out the window.

By: s2pid

s2pid — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:40:17 +0000

C’mmon Moderate me already

By: s2pid

s2pid — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:18:44 +0000

Vote McCain and th@ sexy MILF.

Somehow they don’t patronize “Sharing an Caring” individuals.I think maybe they’ll convert Intellectual Property to Shareware

By: AC

AC — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:26:53 +0000

There is no such thing as “intellectual property”.

How can someone own (!) immaterial things?

Try to explain that?

Only material things can be owned. And the can only be owned by persons (which own themselves and therefore can own other things).

Self-owners can own material things in the world (by appropriation) and the can make contracts with other self-owners (in which way the can also acquire property owned by others).

Ideas cannot be owned. Procedures cannot be owned. Formulas cannot be owned. And so own.

To think ideas can be owned means that you are a socialist who wants to impede the rights of rightful property owners.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:55:59 +0000

@daniel
Look at this earlier post:
“My uncle has created an application generator for IT systems, he spent 20 years coding the thing. Now if i was in the same shoes, i would release the product for educational purposes only and those who wish to make a profit will pay royalties. Its a win-win situation.”
There’s your solution, now stop ignoring it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:52:19 +0000

“I’m still waiting for some to answer the question â€” why is it OK for some company to sink tons of money into a cure for something, only so that someone like me can go find the recipe, cook it up in my garage, sell it for 10% of the cost (since I didn’t actually have to invest in any sort of research, or hire doctors or anything) and put them out of business?”

As long as you pay the patent holder some royalty, it should be okay.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:50:51 +0000

The best way to reform the patent system is basically to allow everyone else to sell it, as long as they pay a royalty to the patent holder, and in addition, to allow non-profit uses like how the government of South Africa is using it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:33:07 +0000

> yet has there ever been some protest against IP as it currently is?

It’s taking place on The Pirate Bay right now. It sends a message to arrogant companies like EA and Politicians like Biden who take bribes from the RIAA that we’re sick of their sleazy ways. We’re sick of them writing laws that advantage Disney, extend copyrights that should have expired long ago. We’re sick of public domain rights being stripped. We’re sick of patent lawyers and politicians in the pocket of their biggest donors.

The people have spoke and said ENOUGH. Lets make the RIAA an election issue.

By: Dia

Dia — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:15:05 +0000

Word of mouth is what hurts people when it comes to healthcare. Preventing medicine men from practicing is what I would call progress.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:32:54 +0000

daniel, they don’t have an answer. this should be abundantly clear by now. pirates have laughable idealism and silly pseudo revolutionary fantasies and for them that’s enough. it doesn’t matter to them that none of it makes a modicum of sense. “everything should be free, man! down with corporations!” etc

it really is no use trying to be common sense to the table.