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by falcolas 657 days ago
Move fast and break things has always been a popular slogan in the startup industry, and "things" is quite often a replacement word for "laws I disagree with".

Plus, many technologists believe that copyright should be outright abolished, again because they disagree with it. No matter that around 40%† of the US' GDP is generated by industries which make use of copyright protection.

https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/economic-research/intellectu...

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All of them can be abused but patents are the most abusable among IP protections.