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> Personally I find the term "intellectual property" to be more messed up. It isn't property, it's a government granted monopoly... So, in other words, it's pr

> Personally I find the term "intellectual property" to be more messed up. It isn't property, it's a government granted monopoly... So, in other words, it's property. There's nothing that guarantees a particular lump of atoms are "yours" besides a government-granted monopoly to control that lump. The atoms don't care.

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barnabee 3y ago
The atoms don’t care but if someone else takes them, you don’t have them anymore. That is a different class of concept than so-called “intellectual property”.