Now would be a good time to donate funds to the Internet Archive. While you visit to give them money, check out the awesome collection. http://archive.org/donat

Now would be a good time to donate funds to the Internet Archive. While you visit to give them money, check out the awesome collection. http://archive.org/donate http://archive.org/donate It is also a good time to reflect upon the very idea of intellectual property. In this age, 15th century ideas about how to protect printers may not be ideal in the 21st century. Patents and copyright are constitutionally mandated: [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” It is not clear that our current laws are doing the job.