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My grandfather's farm could not be copied and distributed 1000000 times over with a few cents worth of electricity and a glass fiber. If you take my grandfather's farm, he is no longer able to use it for farming.

Copyrights and patents were created specifically for the purpose of recouping development costs that are otherwise non-recoverable by the more obvious laws of microeconomics.

You're not just comparing apples and oranges. You're comparing actual apples to poems that rhyme the word orange.




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