From: thomas.nospam@dergrossebruder.org   
      
   SFAM wrote:   
   > [snip] If everything is free (no patents),   
   > the incentive for creating wealth (cell phones, cell phone networks,   
   > emoticons on cell phones, for instance) dissipates rapidly. I think you'd   
   > find that this outcome infringes on your natural rights far more than having   
   > to pay for stuff.   
      
   I'm not sure about that. If inventions were only made, when you can get   
   money from them, then for a long time in human history no inventions   
   would have been made. It's the same argument that the copyright industry   
   uses for using DRM and suing P2P users. I think, most inventions, music   
   etc are made by people that just try to express themselves, though I   
   have to admit, it takes a lot of money to develop a product from the   
   inventions, so you have a point, if you only think in a   
   pseudo-free-market sense, the way the world economy works nowadays.   
      
   cu Thomas   
   --   
   Copies in your brain are - not yet - regulated by copyright laws.   
   (Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture)   
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