This model would leave no incentive for anyone to innovate because the big bullies will take your lunch anyway. Hence, intellectual property protection (or wha

This model would leave no incentive for anyone to innovate because the big bullies will take your lunch anyway. Hence, intellectual property protection (or whatever legal term is right here). If the current framework can't penalize Zynga for ripping off someone else's hard work, I would say the system is broken for this use case at minimum. There's a line between inspiration and stealing, and I would say Zynga isn't on the right side of such a line in this case. Apple, when launched the iPod (could take many Apple examples but this is from the letter) didn't make a more-or-less copy of an existing successful product. Took inspiration from the idea of portable digital music and took it to the next level. Significantly better product. Google didn't copy Yahoo!, seriously now! They took the idea of searching for pages and took it to the next level. Significantly better product. To say they copied is like saying anyone who invents a new dish has copied the very first cooked meal in history. Seriously? People have just gotten amazing at gaming the system than playing the game.