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Dixie Chicks were a minor internal issue, they basically targeted Conservatives/Southerners as their core audience, since they were a U.S. Country music group. And not even a particularly good one, either. Neocons trying to go after libertarians or paleocons are not really a new thing. This...

More like when the pointless bureaucrats and lawyers and other pointless bloat and rent seekers get their teeth into it.

I am pro copyrights and IP protection, but I am not ok with patent trolling and perpetual copyright.

You should take a look at the software industry. Years ago, Sum microsystems opensourced a lot of stuff, Java, their Solaris OS, and they owned MySQL which was already opensource, kidna. Oracle decided to be cute and we got lots of forks and a nice fire was lit under stuff like Java and JDK...

You do realize that legal contracts can not be drafter "in perpetuity" right? Or how frigging hard it will be to track who gets what, and that at some point you will be giving money to people less related to the originator than Elizabeth Warren is related to Amerindians. :ROFLMAO: :sneaky...

A physical object can be tracked, can have unique characteristics, and if it is in your possession there are numerous physical impediments to taking it away. There are various impediments to moving it around. A car for example, has a license plate, a deed/title of ownership, a VIN and a chassis...

Oh, geez, if only we had some form of institution that lends money on interest to people who need it. Or maybe some way for people to invest in your company directly :ROFLMAO: Or, you can, you know, reinvest the money from the first venture. Available in every household - maybe. Shown...

So, have you paid tour licensing fee to the descendants of invented fire and the wheel lately? I personally think that copyright having a set time limit is a good thing, because then companies like Disney will not be able to milk Micky and Batman until the End Times and will be forced to make...