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| What’s the Solution To Intellectual Property?                      |
|   from the do-you-believe dept.                                    |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @03:18 (United States)       |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/0310204 |
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[0]StealthyRoid writes “I’m an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter
of property rights, both physical and intellectual. At the same time, I
find the current trend of increasing penalties for minor violations,
criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer technologies like DRM, and
abuse of the legal system by the *AA’s of the world really disturbing.
You’d think that by now, there’d be a reasonable solution to the problem
of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining
the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd
litigation, but I have yet to find one. So, I pose these questions to the
Slashdot community: 1 — Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual
property to begin with? That is, do you believe that intellectual
property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you
think it’s illusory? If not, why? 2 — If so, how would you go about
protecting the rights of intellectual property holders in a way that
doesn’t require unfair usage limitations or resort to predatory abuse of
the tort system?”

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