[bambax]

IP is like the car: an interesting idea that has been pushed way too far.

It's hard to even imagine the number of problems that would go away instantly if we got rid of it.

And if someone wonders if people would stop creating if there was no more IP:

1/ Creators always create; that's what they do.

2/ Arguably, the best works of art were created before IP even existed (invented at the very end of the 18th century).

3/ And most importantly, IP doesn't pay creators. That's the whole point of the article. IP pays the studios' CEO ridiculous salaries, and their lawyers' whose sole job is to create artificial scarcity.