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by cperciva 5366 days ago
It's not in the interest of Intellectual Ventures in the slightest to force people to stop infringing -- if people stop infringing, they get nothing.

If you're interested in maximizing the amount of useful stuff produced by the economy, having patents sold off to Intellectual Ventures is far better than having them continue to be owned by companies which want to do nothing other than shut down their competition.