> I've always believed that the entire concept of "intellectual property" does overall more harm than good It's fairly broken, but on balance it seems the crea

> I've always believed that the entire concept of "intellectual property" does overall more harm than good It's fairly broken, but on balance it seems the creators are the ones getting screwed. I did years of research in a scientific lab which resulted in <drum roll> 2 (yes two ... count them) peer-reviewed papers. My colleagues and I did the work, wrote up the damned papers, yet to get them published we had to sign over copyright to what I'd now suggest is essentially a rent-seeking scientific publishing mafia. All a long time ago, but I never had (and still don't have) the ability to either legally download or legally redistribute my own work...