> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010612/80/bv0m8.html
>
>
> Peculiar logic, indeed. Protecting social welfare or environment is
called
> "protectionism" and chastised as the impediment to free market.
Protecting
> monopolies of the entertainment inductry, however, is a religion,
and any
> infringement is called "piracy."
>
> Let's hope technology will help to render these monopolies errr....
> "intellectual property rights" obsolete.
> wojtek
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The "technology" already exists; it's called the law. Unfortunately law, too, is a commodity that can be bought by the highest bidder. So until the legal community embraces egalitarian perspectives on property rights, don't count on engineers bringing about the obsolescence.
Ian