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by bediger 5496 days ago
You may want to re-examine your position that copyright is not bad. There's really not a lot of evidence that any "intellectual property" is good, where "good" is something like pareto efficiency. Any sort of "intellectual property" at all, when enforced by the government, is probably a drag on the economic system.

You could start your re-examination with "Against Intellectual Monopoly", http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... especially chapter 6.

Personally, it appears to me that a combination of regulatory capture and legislative capture has enabled a few large corporations to define "intellectual property" in such a way that what used to be accepted as inalienable rights of US citizens are widely suppressed. And that's going way, way too far.