Originally Posted by
Raza
IP goes beyond economics; it's an entire tertairy system of interpersonal ethic (after normal property, and whatever you think applies when those two don't) that is currently being enforced by law on the populations of most first world countries. It overlaps most ungracefully with the other two, contituting an unmanagable barrier to a unified theory of human ethics. It compromises personal and intellectual freedom, culture, science and any number of points within humanity's mental development on a global scale offering no justification, no appeal to being right or effective in these fields, other than its boast of making a certain few sub-industries of the capitalistic system of material distribution profitable.
A regulation on human behaviour of this scale is not warranted by mere economic utility.
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