You wouldn't download a car! Well, now you can. And so the same issues that have affected music and movies are now going to start making themselves felt elsewh

You wouldn't download a car! Well, now you can. And so the same issues that have affected music and movies are now going to start making themselves felt elsewhere in the economy. If you're counting on design patents and incompatible shapes to raise the switching costs for your customers (Steve Jobs I'm looking in the direction of that stupid proprietary connector) you won't be able to count on maximising profits by preventing copycats. The most draconian anti-counterfeiting laws you can imagine will not be sufficient to keep people from building things they want.