Is patent protection good or bad?

[Riddick]

If I can make a product better and deliver it to consumers cheaper, then why shouldn't I be able to?

[madnak]

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No one wants to buy music or movies anymore.

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Yeah, DVD sales are very low today. And the RIAA is struggling to survive.

[hmkpoker]

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No one wants to buy music or movies anymore.

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Yeah, DVD sales are very low today. And the RIAA is struggling to survive.

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You'll have to excuse me, sometimes I forget that other people don't have the pleasure of being hooked up to a very large DC hub [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[madnak]

Hehehe. Hey, I make a rule of downloading something before I buy it. But I still buy stuff. I'm watching Penn and Teller's "[censored]!" right now, almost caught up to the Boy Scout episode.

And I'm going to buy the DVDs because I love the show. Even though I have it all on my hard drive. Not because I think Showtime needs my money, but because I want to cast my "vote."

[mmbt0ne]

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That would stifle innovation on a grand scale.

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No, it wouldn't. I find that assumption to be empirically ridiculous, given the vast quanitity of intellectual products that are created year in and year out without any hope of compensation whatsoever.

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Such as?

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Gov't funded research. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
Boro's favorite thing. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[hmkpoker]

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Hehehe. Hey, I make a rule of downloading something before I buy it. But I still buy stuff. I'm watching Penn and Teller's "[censored]!" right now, almost caught up to the Boy Scout episode.

And I'm going to buy the DVDs because I love the show. Even though I have it all on my hard drive. Not because I think Showtime needs my money, but because I want to cast my "vote."

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I steal software because:

1) I can do so with impunity.

2) It is of equal quality but infinitely cheaper and therefore better.

3) I can spend the money I don't spend on media on other things.


I win [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Sharkey]

Intellectual property rights are essential to the research, development and marketing of the creative output and innovative applications that sustain the modern technological world.

This isn’t about 99 cent plastic widgets. Anything complex and expensive to manufacture requires intellectual property rights be defended for there to be an economic incentive for its development.

Without such private property, the useless parasites that feed off the labor of others would find themselves back in the caves.

[Brainwalter]

If only one h sapiens had been able to use the wheel he invented for 17 years, we'd all be still in the caves.

[Borodog]

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That would stifle innovation on a grand scale.

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No, it wouldn't. I find that assumption to be empirically ridiculous, given the vast quanitity of intellectual products that are created year in and year out without any hope of compensation whatsoever.

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Such as?

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You're kidding, right?

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Also, "empircally ridiculous"? Don't you think that's an overstatement given the vast quanitity of intellectual products that are created year in and year out largely because of the prospect of compensation?

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Uh, no? Do you disagree that the volume of uncompensated intellectual products each year probably outweighs the compensated ones by a factor of a hundred, if not thousands? For every book that gets copyrighted and published, a hundred are written. For every band that gets signed and makes an album, a hundred labor in the garage and bars. For every movie that makes money at the mainstream box office there are a hundred made that never make a dime.

People like to create. They like to share what they like to create. Not having patent or copyright protections does not preclude people getting compensated for their creativity, it just means that arbitrary monopolies are not created.

[moorobot]

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People like to create. They like to share what they like to create.

[/ QUOTE ] Have you been reading Marx Borodog?