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Intellectual property doesn’t exist. And if such a thing is forced upon the society, it only introduces a degrading effect.

https://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/#againstip

BITKARROT 2y ago

100% Disagree.

Intellectual Property, especially patentable IP comes at a cost of hundreds of thousands hours of R&D, time, irrecoverable material costs, labor.

For those who just want to grift off of someone else's hard labor for free, I will gladly, very happily show you the door.

In the case of software licensing or fashion design where the product is easy to copy, that's a different issue, there are licenses which are structured differently but you'd better have a solid legal team going after those who infringe on licenses and patents.

At the end of the day, if you cheat or copy or lie, maybe you think you win for the short haul, but

Karma is a real bitch and the universe will come back with fury.

I'm not a lawyer but I've seen it time and time before.

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Tony 2y ago

I believe that if you can’t make your product “copy-paste proof”, like what bitcoin does, any attempts of protecting it from copy pasting would only end up in a net loss either for you or for the society overall.

I do not imply that we should immediately break the current system and force everyone to make everything free. I’m saying that raising a culture in people all over the world where everyone rewards any useful received information will benefit the world and potentially make intellectual property unnecessary (to defend).

BITKARROT 2y ago

Bitcoin seed phrases are information and should not be made freely available except to it owner(s).

Hence not all information should be FREE

SovereigntyQuest 2y ago

I want to point to a section in a video I linked to earlier which I think is pertinent to this discussion. At 1:49:42 the documentary starts to examine the example of FLOSS protocols and the fact that they have developed despite not being swayed by a business model (how true that actually is I don't know). The whole video is well worth watching but the section I mentioned is on topic here. I am not suggesting that I am for keeping it all free but I do the opportunity for the client/relay/wider protocol innovators to come up with a system in sync with the users. In fact if we all don't come up with viable models going forward we may fall prey to the vc/ corporate vultures yet again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLxpAZzy0s

Tony 2y ago

What I also mean is social part of it - anyone can fork Bitcoin’s code, yet it won’t be nearly as valuable cause all the users, node operators, businesses and miners stay with the original Bitcoin.

A good example extrapolating this on nostr i believe would be paid relay operators. Where anyone can “steal” their approach to running a relay, but not the users that already paid for and connected to the original ones.