Killing off the little guy (this time it's internet radio)

[Skidoo]

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The idea is that people can protect their own valuable time and efforts. I don't feel like helping protect Britney Spears' time and efforts.

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To the extent that the market value of creative innovation is unprotected, and thus effectively redistributed through collectivization, the incentives for such activity disappear.

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So what? My incentive to mow lawns disappears when I don't have a government imposing a rule that any time I mow a lawn everyone must pay me $200,000.

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No, your incentive to invent and market the first lawnmower disappears when anyone else can just copy the idea and set up shop as your competition.