Originally posted by cool skill
What’s wrong with it is the fact that intellectual property is not yours.
Well SOME intellectual property is mine, and the rest is either public or privately owned, much like a state park or a speedy red sports car. Crying over the fact that some of these things belong to others and not to me doesn't do anyone much good.
Originally posted by cool skill
It’s not the same as a bike which is a tangle thing you can own.
Intellectual property belongs to everybody.
It's very much the same thing as a bike. And from inspiration to formation to implementation and fruition, at what point do the thoughts and innovations of other people become your property? You have no more right to the product of another persons mind than he is willing to give you. I could write a great epic, and keep the only copy locked up in my sock drawer and never let anyone see it, and there would never be any dispute over who owns it, why then must there be dispute over who truly owns the product of their mind when it becomes much more easy to steal?
Originally posted by cool skill
It’s a primitive nonsense concept that needs to be obliterated.
It's a necessary idea which protects the rights, wellbeing and livelihood of very many people. Without protection of intellectual property, quite frankly we'd have many less artists and innovators, because frankly everyone would just have to get a menial day job because they wouldn't be able to make a damn dime off of what they create.
How many works of art, music, books, cinema, video games, or any other form of media for that matter do you think would exist today if their creators knew that there was no hope of them being able to pay for the costs of making them, or even hope to support themselves during or after their release? Intellectual property laws make culture possible!
I'd say that a society without protection of intellectual property is a primitive and hopeless one, and that those who are against it are either simply too narrow minded to understand what they are suggesting, or are just outright thieves.