Copyright/IP/patent law started as way to allow people to feed themselves off their labour
Check out what happened when copyrights were first enacted. It was another enclosures “gold rush” where scammers went around and copied traditional songs people were using and declated copyrights, then went around and sued those same people.
there is never a shortage of parasitic rent seekers and money changers…
society has yet to find a good way to deal with them but we got this:
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.
Check out what happened when copyrights were first enacted. It was another enclosures “gold rush” where scammers went around and copied traditional songs people were using and declated copyrights, then went around and sued those same people.
there is never a shortage of parasitic rent seekers and money changers…
society has yet to find a good way to deal with them but we got this: