What's the Solution To Intellectual Property?

StealthyRoid writes "I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual. At the same time, I find the current trend of increasing penalties for minor violations, criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer technologies like DRM, and abuse of the legal system by the *AA's of the world really disturbing. You'd think that by now, there'd be a reasonable solution to the problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation, but I have yet to find one. So, I pose these questions to the Slashdot community: 1 — Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual property to begin with? That is, do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you think it's illusory? If not, why? 2 — If so, how would you go about protecting the rights of intellectual property holders in a way that doesn't require unfair usage limitations or resort to predatory abuse of the tort system?"

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Re: Artificial scarcity=Real Property Infringement

[monxrtr]

It is the right to determine who is allowed to make copies and when, that is regarded as 'property'. And this is exclusive. Thus, IP is a *trespass*, IP is a limitation on how people can shape and transform their real property. If I own the IP to "doors" and the IP to "windows" and the IP to "walls" and the IP to "roofs", you can't build a house on your land with your trees. This causes houses to become more expensive to build, reduces the supply of houses, and results in a net poorer society with an artificial shortage of housing.

IP isn't just an assault on free speech rights, it's also an assault on real property rights.

ONE MUST AT ALL TIMES HAVE IN ONE'S MIND A CETERIS PARIBUS COMPARISON TO THE ECONOMIC RESULTS WHICH WOULD EVOLVE IF REAL PHYSICAL TANGIBLE PROPERTY COULD BE COPIED AND EXPANDED AS EASYILY AS IDEAS CAN BE COPIED AND EXPANDED.

1.) Poverty would be eliminated.

2.) Inequality would be eliminated.

3.) Innovation and creative change would not be eliminated, as that is all anyone who was not lounging around in biblical garden of eden paradise would be doing, thinking of how they would want something better, even though it could be infinitely copied. Innovation and artistic creation would become the sole economic production activity, and remuneration would consist 100% in extremely valuable fame.