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		ryandrake on Jan 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution It's the lie of intellectual property in general: Without a way to own ideas and inventions, and control how others use them, nobody will invent or create new ideas.

Ace17 on Jan 30, 2018 [–]

The actual lie of "intellectual property" is that such a thing exists at all.

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