<<More of the fox dissing the grapes>>
... perhaps, but
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<<each and every nation and culture took ip for granted, when it suited them
check your history books>>
so, who be the grapes that are sour?
Each trade is not a discrete transaction, but a part of the unified whole, of a basket, and what we have today is the result of a few quagrillion discrete transactions, involving a lot of folks doing a lot of things to other folks, until this very moment, and now, what is is, so, again, compete on whatever ground, stop complaining about how rules are not followed, or ... just complain some more, and wait ... only to complain some more, hoping that sour grapes will get to make aromatic wine.
Do not be like a CB Ilaine, picking on a point in time, a moment in space, and say, 'aha, look, look teacher, look how they are ...'
That is a loser's game.
Do you really think the ability to protect the copyright of a few flicks from Hollywood will make any difference at all in anything? No.
Do you imagine that ideas can be protected in the absence of economic logic and financial rationale? Of course not.
Do you really believe the inability to protect IP makes one iota bit of difference in humans making progress? Do you contend that naturally vivacious inventors would stop inventing just because the ideas will be stolen by anyone, whether by (i) outright coimpliment of copying or, (ii) by nefarious and methodical scheming of shameless lawyers in the direction of building nonsensical 2nd order patents around primary patents so as to force a cross-licensing?
So, if CB Ilaine's point was truly about patents and copyrights, I have news for her, that being what is is, because what was was.
OTOH, if CB Ilaine's point was about theft, I would suggest to her (i) she voted in a thief and a untruth-teller, and (ii) by engaging in mortgage refinancing and supporting fiat money inflation, and such, she can easily determine that she in fact is stealing, as per teachings of her Constitution and her Bible. |
