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intellectualproperty · @daxinth · Aug 19 '16

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Intellectual Property rights - The Myth that ought to die

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<p><center>Intellectual Property is a fallacy.</center>
<center>(<em>an illusory concept</em>)</center></p>
<center><img src="https://httpsimage.com/img/illusion_1.jpg"></center>
<p>1. Created by governments to literally be handed out to those who were deemed deserving.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies">Statute of Monopolies</a><br>
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<p>2. Enforcing arbitrary restrictions on human thought by way of registering with the government.<br>
Thanks USPTO</p>
<p>Creators want to share their ideas with the world, and if the world finds them valuable, they are compensated. Simply because I compose an original something does not entitle me to anything.  When others see value in my creation, then I can trade it, but the obligation to do so is not there simply because of its creation.</p>

<p>One of the biggest areas within Steemit is <a href="https://steemit.com/tags.html/hot">SteemIt Art</a>, one cannot get more subjective than our individual interpretations of value in art, and Steemit monetizes this value epicly. While other pages like youtube, facebook, and other content publication sites can be monetized it does not take into account subjective value the consumer places on the information</p>

<p>This is not to say that one cannot fully participate in the agreement one is bound to when purchasing something. Nor that the creator of a thing cannot exert control over the creation. 
<p><center><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection"> Copy Protection</a></center></p>
<p>To the extent that they see value in doing so, one may create guidelines for use, inasmuch as they can enforce it. But breaking those guidelines, unless through actual contractual obligation, does nothing of harm to the creator. Further this process may lead to innovation, or simply be instructions for optimized/safe use.</p>

<p>In society, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement">EULAs</a> and other contractual information generally isn't regarded by the consumer, and if it is, short of a law degree to understand the ramifications of clicking accept to access software.  One generally must employ someone else to ascertain the consequences of violating any number of clauses(like gold farmers, spammers, and the like.)</p>
<p>This distortion is brought to you in part by The United States Government and its subsidiaries. And funding by readers like you.</p>

<p><center>Below is an example of copy protection currently used</center</p>
<p><center>Emphasis and commentary added for understanding</center></p>

<p>How are activation and genuine Windows connected?</p>

<p>Activation pairs your product key or <em>digital entitlement</em> with your hardware configuration and helps verify that your copy of Windows hasn't been used on more PCs than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. Usually, you only need to activate Windows once, unless you make a significant hardware change.</p>

<p><center><em>What is significant about the hardware, when the purchase is for software?</em></center></p>

<p>Genuine Windows is a recurring process that checks your product key or digital entitlement to make sure it's not blocked or <em>being used on hardware that's different from what you were using when you activated Windows. </em>The genuine, or validation, check is performed when your PC attempts to download optional updates from Microsoft. For example, when your PC downloads updates, Windows checks to see if your product key or digital entitlement is valid. If it is, Windows on your PC is genuine, and you're eligible to receive the latest updates from Microsoft. If it's not, your PC is running non-genuine Windows.</p>

<p> Ever read that?  Microsoft is claiming to only agree to offer updates to genuine copies, registered with specific hardware. Enforceable to some extent but why also have patents? To prevent people from doing this. <a href="http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Pirate_Edition">Becoming Pirates</a></p>
Or is it really just actual market competition? Should people be restricted from purchasing and re-creating something then selling it? (if they use Microsofts name, it would be fraudulent to the consumer, but only by way of authorship, not ownership.) Ideas cannot be owned, they can be shared or saved. But once an idea has come to light, if it is valuable enough people will trade for it.  Governments prove that if it exists, it will attempt to control it. 

<center><p> Why must IP die? It not only holds society back, it is one of the foundational supports that props governments up. How else is there to stifle innovation, monopolize ideas, and create artificial scarcity by way of thought control. If one doesn't have a national system to register inventions and have them catalogued so anyone claiming ownership and sales rights can be summarily extorted, abducted and caged, or killed. </p></center>

<p>Creating a song, a piece of software, a design schematic, or even artwork, brings something into the world that did not exist prior, and while that is commendable, the value in doing so is not only in the creator's view.  The creation, to have value, must be viewed as valuable by someone else willing to trade. And so too, must the creator be willing to trade the value the other places on the item, be it steem, bitcoin, gold, silver, or government currency. This is the beauty of trade, and as society grows, we will continue finding ways to exchange value by creating and sharing.</p>

But don't just take my word for it. 
<p><a href="https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0">Against Intellectual Property Stephen Kinsella</a>
<p><a href="https://mises.org/library/case-against-ip-concise-guide">More with a list of Anti-IP resources</a></p>
<p><a href="http://c4sif.org/2011/02/intellectual-property-is-bad-for-business/">C4SIF</a></p>
<p><a href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html">Roderick Long</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/patent-nonsense/">Patent Nonsense</a></p>
<p><a href="https://fee.org/resources/intellectual-property-versus-real-property/">IPvsRP</a></p>
<p>Salute to the Molinari Institute for this comprehensive list.</p>
<a href="http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm">Praxeology</a>
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@dennygalindo · Aug 19 '16

Nice sunnary

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@lifeworship · Aug 19 '16

thank you, so much. i just went off on someone who wants to use a piece of software to track down and extract payment from people who didn't find something  valuable enough to pay for a digital copy of. i love the act of creation. if i am doing it productively, artfully, i hope people will contribute to see more. if they don't maybe i'm doing it wrong. if i try to force the m to pay me i'll be creating a world for myself to live in that will be way worse than the one in which i did not get paid for that which no one wanted.

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@luke490 · Aug 19 '16

I don't like intellectual property as much as any other voluntarist...
But, people who copy paste text from articles and blogs, or post youtube videos they did not make with zero written content to go with it...
Well, let's just say I'm not going to fight to have that flag taken from the post.
Not to say I would put a flag or downvote on any post.

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@daxinth · Aug 19 '16

Original creation is incentivized on Steemit, somewhat enforced but only because of the content check. 

I think I would downvote for fraud or advocacy of the state's continued existence.

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@luke490 · Aug 19 '16

Well, me and you Daxinth, we don't have enough SteemPower to mean anything if we flag or downvote.
We would only make people angry at us.
But if we upvote we can make people happy with us, despite the fact we made almost zero difference.

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@xondra · Aug 20 '16

"I don't like intellectual property, but I don't like it when others take what I created to capitalize on it."
Textbook leftist, haha.
Sorry, it's just too funny.

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@luke490 · Aug 20 '16

Well, I would love it if we all never downvoted or flagged anyone. But, eventually you run into those types of people(that run around flagging and downvoting).  I got to pick my battles, and if someone is just copying from other places on the internet, I don't see that as any different than spam(If I wanted that information I would go to the place on the internet that has it). At the end of the day I don't like the policing of steem with flags and downvotes, but I can't hope to influence people with over 1K steem. @xondra, did you read what I wrote because this was not what I wrote: " I don't like it when others take what I created to capitalize on it." Or is that what you thnk, and you think it is funny we don't care?

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@xondra · Aug 20 '16

Everything costs something. When you don't pay for something because you don't deem it valuable enough to pay for it even though you are using it, you are stealing.

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@luke490 · Aug 20 '16

Oh, OK.... So you don't like it when others take what you created to capitalize on it. You could simply inform people that what they are seeing is a spam copy of the original content. But you have the right to your opinion.

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@xondra · Aug 21 '16

I shouldn't have to. Why people don't respect others? This is like my neighbors telling me I should close the windows when the smoke from my smoking neighbors is coming in. No, I shouldn't. You shouldn't smoke in an area where you know it'll get into other people's apartments.
It seems to me that to most people respect is a dirty word.

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@luke490 · Aug 21 '16

"You cannot dislike intellectual property but hate those who copy paste."~@xondra 
I think this quote is the basis of where I disagree with you...
Initially, I just shy from the idea of "Hate" but let us restate that:
"You cannot disapprove of  intellectual property but find those who copy paste as doing wrong."
I disagree with this idea because of the way I perceive the universe(and the ideas in it). I don't see people/entities in the universe as creators but as discoverers. Everything, any idea, anyone has written down was not created by them(thus their intellectual property), no; it was discovered by them. People who re-post already public content are not guilty of intellectual property violation. They are guilty of insulting the observers, as though they don't know how to find that discovered content for themselves.

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@luke490 · Aug 22 '16

@xondra, I will vote up whatever you say that I can agree with. Funny, I thought you were the pro-government guy advocating some government run around enforcing what it thinks is "responsible IP Law". Seeing that your Venezuelan background has failed to make you a pro-government guy; I'm all the more your fan. As I have said "Just because I reject the idea of "intellectual property" for the case of someone who has publicised the information; does not mean I reject other forms of property."

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@xondra · Aug 21 '16

" I don't see people/entities in the universe as creators but as discoverers"

and then you go on to say:

"no; it was discovered by them."

Whichever way you try to conceptualize it, it was THEM, not you, so you are still wrong in disregarding the importance of having SOMEONE who creates or discovers something. Without THEM, you would have a total amount of NOTHING.

👍 luke490

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@xondra · Aug 21 '16

Btw, you are mixing concepts once again. One might "discover" a mathematical law in the sense that you didn't create mathematics nor the universe, but you discovered a mathematical fact about it  and thus you are a discoverer.

But a painter is a creator, regardless of the fact that painting and painting concepts and ideas were not created by them. But the final result, the painting, didn't exist in the universe before they decided to paint it. If that were true,  people advocating for spontaneous generation would have been right, and by placing a can of paint by a canvas you would get your pre-existing painting out of the universe.

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