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Piracy was illegal long before cassettes or Napster were invented. Sulfur extraction was always legal, and for good reason.


So the laws were misguided. Why should someone be granted a monopoly on excluding others from using an idea (patent) or content (copyright)? To prop up a business model that cannot be sustained except if based on threats of violence?




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