All intellectual discoveries rest on the shoulders of giants - those that came before. Trillions of dollars into universities, millions of scientists working o

All intellectual discoveries rest on the shoulders of giants - those that came before. Trillions of dollars into universities, millions of scientists working on a vast human project of technology. I am okay with media piracy. If I read a book I can use the ideas in it. Yet I cannot 'copy' a technology? There is certainly a mismatch between these fields. In practice, to commercially produce that which is covered by IP is very expensive - factories and tooling, production lines and global logistics - the knowledge is only half of the game.