How do you deal with the issue of patents/copyrights in a libertarian/ancap worldview?
I mean, isn't enforcing stuff like copyright violations pretty authoritarian? Why am I a villian in a free market if I adopt an idea that another company has the monopoly on?
Should I really be punished if I am able to understand and copy a product or system? For example "stealing" patented production methods in nanotechnology... Isn't it better and more competitive and truly free if everyone is able to use every piece of knowledge for himself?
I kinda get how pirating movies/music is wrong but then again it's basically the same thing, at least at the core.
Well lets say you create something cool and useful publish it and slowly try to get to the big public except some big corporation notices it, copies it and introduces it to the big public , without copyright you cant prevent this
David Young
You could have a better development strategy then, create an infrastructure before a final market release that isn't copied quickly and easily and make your invention or whatever dependent on it. The argument is, is it your right to infringe on the use of your intellectual property by others? Is there even such a thing as intellectual property?
John Russell
Any argument about the "right to copy" has to take into consideration 'patent trolls' and how big corporations can afford the legal teams to settle or win or drag on appeals for years, also wetwork.
Copyright is a retarded scam like communism, or the metric system, it can never work. It is designed for the brave new world after automation has completely replaced labor. One "job" people can still do is patent ideas, like songs, charging others access for the "right" to use it. A lot of applefags think they can sit at home all day and make patches for a synthesizer or design apartments in Second Life or blogcast, and because they "copyrighted" their "work" think they deserve an income. Farmers have to pay to update their tractors operating systems and firmware, they don't "own" their equipment, they basically rent it from the corp[oration, and pay to use it. The same will be done with cars, its already done with cell phones. You don't own your phone really, it can be remote updated, disabled, tracked, used to snoop you, you just pay to rent its service. I saw a Keiser Report episode where he was shooting a segment in the street doing an interview, and a car drove past playing the radio. The vid was flagged for "copyright infringement" because every video uploaded is scanned for all registered copyrighted works. He had to reshoot or scrap the whole interview, because of a few seconds of audio from a passing car. This was probably unintentional, but it wouldn't be hard to follow around him or Alex Jones and play music just to get his thought crime vids flagged. Back to patent trolls, copyright is meant to be weaponized against the people, by the elites, who play by their own rules.
>just make your own infrastructure And how would I afford that? With a loan that has little guarantee to get paid back because as soon as my product hits the market the competition can immeditately reproduce it at a larger scale and then sell it cheaper making my product unlikely to be profitable for long.
Evan Lopez
>Enforcing property rights is authoritarian Wut?
Charles Bell
Copy right laws are made by (((them))) so that they
a) Can decouple intellectual work from physical work and outsource simpler menial tasks to shitholes, while being assured that the products aren’t simply copied once the chinks get how to do it
b) Can sell you overpriced media while you are paying your government for preventing you from make it available at a lower price
c) make absurd amounts of money as lawyers
Patents and intellectual property have to be abolished because they are holding everyone back, making some leeches rich and basically subsidizing companies that are too lazy to protect their trade secrets.
Bentley Butler
Intelectual property is just that, property thud should be afforded legal protection.
Evan Harris
Intellectual Property isn't real property as it isn't subject to scarcity. Intellectual Property is actually government-enforced exclusivity of production. Pretty much turbo jewry and one of the few things Ancaps and Commies agree to hate.
