Intellectual property is the biggest threat to human civilization

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is biggest to property civilization human Intellectual threat the

Been saying that forever.

I’ve also often had this thought. It became obvious to me how wrong it was when Disney extended Mickey’s copyright before it went into public domain.

I found it starkly ironic that a company that built itself on ripping off old stories from the Public Domain, ended up changing the rules to copyright law in order to protect their own.

Protecting ideas is important, but sometimes intellectual property laws can stop useful knowledge from being shared. That can slow down progress, especially in areas like medicine or technology.

I thought that because I realized that if TSMC forgets their processes, all of humanity does