[radu_floricica]

I did skim the book, or at least a few chapters. I'm sorry to say, but I find it full of logical falacies and anecdotal evidence. There is a long chapter about pharmaceutical companies, which points out very valid evils of the domain, including marketing of dubious ethics, but when it comes to offering an alternative incentives for developing new, expensive drugs, I couldn't find anything remotely convincing.

Other often used fallacy is: "If patents would be good, this would have happened when country X changed its patent laws". Correlation does not imply causation, and you will forgive me if I do not believe such obvious biased authors chose the most unbalanced cases. Maybe in the rest of the book there is an explanation as to why America (strong copyright) uses so few innovations developed in China (weak copyright). It seems to me it's the other way around.

The book is a very good critique of the evils of the copyright system. I fully agree with most of them. My conclusion is that we need a better system, less open to abuse and with shorter terms. But we still definitely need it.