Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by MontyCarloHall 22 days ago
Or that the notion of "Imaginary Property" was a seductive mirage to copyleft folks, many of whom have since realized that they do, in fact, value intellectual property rights in the wake of AI companies' free (as in freedom) use of other people's IP.

I stand somewhere in the middle: while our IP laws are far too restrictive, the folly of abolishing IP altogether has been effectively laid bare by AI companies.