Excluding really obvious things like ethnic cleansing or aggressive war, it's hard to find any policy or practice in the realm of politics that is all good, all

Excluding really obvious things like ethnic cleansing or aggressive war, it's hard to find any policy or practice in the realm of politics that is all good, all bad, perfectly effective, etc. You can almost always find counterexamples or special cases. I think my overall point is that IP law today is one of the only things that balances the power of pure financial and physical capital. Without IP law, whoever has the easiest access to the most cash wins, period. They can take anything they want and put as much marketing muscle as they want behind it. If the original creators don't have access to as much capital, they lose. I think it's more true today than it was in the past since digital communication amplifies all these winner-take-all effects.