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Maybe that's because illegal copying violates no natural law and is in fact allowable under a common understanding of property rights. If I own a hard drive, I
by reedlaw 16y ago
Maybe that's because illegal copying violates no natural law and is in fact allowable under a common understanding of property rights. If I own a hard drive, I can store anything I want on it. Copyright limits that natural property right by saying you can't store certain media or images that have been designated as "copyrighted" on your own property. This idea is foreign to most cultures and nearly all ancient societies.
- forensic 16y ago>This idea is foreign to most cultures and nearly all ancient societies. Which partially explains why most cultures and nearly all ancient societies had little to no intellectual development. Thinkers gotta eat or they won't exist. Intellectual property feeds the families of most of the people on HN.