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Copyright and patent are not property, but special privileges granted by the government. The fact that you're using arguments from how copyright and patents wo
by randallsquared 18y ago
Copyright and patent are not property, but special privileges granted by the government. The fact that you're using arguments from how copyright and patents work to attack actual property shows, I think, just how far off the rails the "intellectual property" advocates are taking us.
- psranga 18y agoWhat I meant to say is that the goal of all protections granted by society (including the right to hold physical property) is based upon the assumption that the right/protection will help society in the present or the future.