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> dangerously useful Ah yes danger to the profit motive. I would say the real danger is third party using other people's research to pocket billions and denyin
by devoply 8y ago
> dangerously useful
Ah yes danger to the profit motive. I would say the real danger is third party using other people's research to pocket billions and denying legitimate access of the research to millions and billions of people. That's extremely dangerous.
- wolfgke 8y ago> Ah yes danger to the profit motive. I see no problem in a profit motive. I see the problem that countries enforce censorship via violence (I am talking about copyright laws).
- Derived 8y agoThis. Imagine how much faster we could lift the world out of poverty if copyright & IP weren't strangling us to death.
- anticensor 8y agoAll countries do that, even ones that do not observe copyright (NK does not observe domestically but enforces foreign copyrights, Micronesia has an IP regime stricter than copyright).
- Pica_soO 8y agoImagine if they wouldn't have held back the telephone- the danger that device could have wreaked. Thank you bell labs, for protecting us from all those market-destroyers, and all those evil copy cats.