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This aren't the only possible options. Generally, I believe in free markets, but certainly not markets in which massive cartels, in collusion with the State, block small businesses from offering true competition, as is now usually the case. We need to decentralize economic power in this nation.

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This aren't the only possible options. Generally, I believe in free markets, but certainly not markets in which massive cartels, in collusion with the State, block small businesses from offering true competition, as is now usually the case. We need to decentralize economic power in this nation.

You can't really do that without repealing the rights of a corporation.  I mean do really expect power of any sort to be decentralized whenever you repudiate all political power of the masses yet grant free reign to most authoritarian organization of all, the corporation?

Certainly not. Simply be completely repealing all copyright law (all inventions immediately become public domain) and radically revising or ending most subsidies we would create a fear more level playing field.

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That said, while we do need intellectual property reform, we definitely don't need to discard the whole system.

I don't see what use there is in keeping it at all. The Internet is quickly rendering the very concept of intellectual property irrelevant.

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decentralized workers' cooperatives.

Actually, this is a good idea too.

Agreed. So long as the State isn't supporting it, I have no qualms whatsoever with the worker's movement.

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That said, while we do need intellectual property reform, we definitely don't need to discard the whole system.

I don't see what use there is in keeping it at all. The Internet is quickly rendering the very concept of intellectual property irrelevant.

Tell that to all those people paying for downloads at iTunes and similar sites, and for e-books to put on their Kindle to read.  While file sharing has affected copyright holders, it isn't going to kill off copyright.  What it has done is severely weaken the role of publishers as the gatekeepers for what is heard, viewed, and read.  Hence, people are less willing to pay the a premium for performing that gatekeeper role, possibly to the point that the concept of a publisher will become irrelevant.  However, publishers are not a necessary component of intellectual property.

And as I've said before, the rise of three-dimensional printing is going to kill all of that. When you can produce, in your own home, virtually every invention that has yet been invented, and the only thing stopping you is the State - the Federal government, to which you, Federalist, are nominally opposed - then you will change your tune in rapid succession.

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That said, while we do need intellectual property reform, we definitely don't need to discard the whole system.

I don't see what use there is in keeping it at all. The Internet is quickly rendering the very concept of intellectual property irrelevant.

Medical patents are the only ones that matter - no one really cares about silly nonsense like music or writings.

Industrial patents?

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Industrial patents?

Yeah, those too.  But how does the internet have anything to do with those?  It just makes stealing from Britanny spears easier.

As I've said before, and will shriek to the top of my lungs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_printing

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