Let us assume for a moment that I agree with the following premise: <<Property rights are the cornerstone of Western democracies Right now that cornerstone is

Let us assume for a moment that I agree with the following premise: <<Property rights are the cornerstone of Western democracies Right now that cornerstone is rather heavily tilted towards IP rights and puts Western democracies at an angle where they could easily slide into the ocean ushering the era ant self-respecting regime is trying prevent. <<You either keep liberal democracy (and the market economy for culture and information), or embrace a free commons of information and demarketize culture/in It is not an either or. It is a spectrum with multitude of options in between. That you seek to put it as a simple binary choice is a failing rhetorical style and will not get you far in terms of arguments on HN. edit: corrected first sentence