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Attempting to defend your perceived rights in court isn't evil.
by denkmoon 2y ago
Attempting to defend your perceived rights in court isn't evil.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoIntellectual property monopolists should not even exist in the first place, much less have "rights" to "defend" in court, real or perceived. The whole premise is absurd to begin with. I can't believe it got to the point where people are debating the relative morality of monopolists defending their "rights".
- sandwichmonger 2y ago[flagged]
- spookie 2y agoHow is Nintendo a monopolist?
- matheusmoreira 2y agoEvery single owner of intellectual property is a monopolist. The government grants them a monopoly on the information for a number of years. Patents are somewhat tolerable monopolies: they tend to last only a quarter of our lifetimes. Once they expire, the information is freed from their "ownership". Nintendo didn't build their fortunes on patents, though. They built it on copyrights. You and I will likely be long dead before those works enter the public domain. If they ever do.
- Dylan16807 2y agoNintendo's perceptions of their rights are far in excess of reasonable. Attempting to defend that does make them bad.