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+The 'intellectual property' oxymoron
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+"*If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive
+property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an
+individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the
+moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and
+the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is
+that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
+He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening
+mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
+That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the
+moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to
+have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them,
+like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any
+point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,
+incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in
+nature, be a subject of property.*" -— Thomas Jefferson
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+Copyright
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+Copyright infringement is not stealing, and copyright law is against the free
+market, it is a government sponsored monopoly.
+
+Copyright law is routinely abused to suppress free speech and individual
+freedoms, it is abused by recording companies to exploit artists, it is abused
+by governments to control information. Copyright law is not only evil, it is
+also stupid, and should be ignored by anyone that believes in a free society
+and free markets.
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+Bach, Shakespeare and Michelangelo didn't need copyright, we don't need copyright.
+Copyright infringement is a victim-less crime, nobody has a right to have a
+monopoly on ideas or information, you have a right to keep your ideas and
+information private, but if you make them public, they are not your private
+property anymore.
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