Patents help new companies get a foothold and challenge them, despite their superior size and strength.
That is the theory. But you are unable to back this up. Nobody ever could, yet. Because the only studies that exist could not demonstrate this with any statistical significance. Neither your next sentence:
The patent system is in place in every modern economy for a reason - we would not be anywhere near where we are technologically without it.
Actually, we probably would be much further.
I've been researching the history of the patent system somewhat, it starts out with delaying the advent of the steam machine by 20 years and gets worse from there.
In the meantime, I'll give the word to someone else:
"the impediments thrown in the way of improvements by the existence of patents will hardly be credited by those who are not familiar with the operation of them. In the present state of things they create such barriers that it is almost wonderful that any improvements can be effected." -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1870
modern health insurance? If you consider "inefficient, bad, and costly" as modern, then it probably is.
Compared to the other "modern" we have in a lot of European countries, I'm not quite sure why your system is called "health insurance" in the first place. Seems rather like a scheme to funnel funds from the population to somewhere else. And the real fun is that half your population seems intent to sabotage any effort of fixing it.
Actually, this is nearly what most ISPs hereabouts have been doing for many years.
Somebody claims some customer violated somebodies copyright? Forward it to the customer in question.
If the customer really did, he'll probably take the infringing content down, or stop filesharing, if he didn't he can contact the accuser himself he tell him what he thinks.
Usually, there is absolutely no need to get law enforcement involved, unless one party insists stubbornly on something it should not.
"A nd you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
Illegal marketplaces start with idiots outlawing drugs et.al.
If it wouldn't be for some alliance of puritan pukes, temperance theologians and spoil sports that started the idea that there is some behaviour, to which all involved parties consent, that they still consider morally objectionable and want outlawed, we wouldn't have a load of these victimless crimes, and thus the market for them wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
because the government neither wrote nor distributes openssl
You inform the parties responsible, and not everyone that could be afflicted. That's common practice.
I (and most security researchers) don't see the need to inform the government specifically, unless you expect for instance a CERT to be able to help you.
Well, if you think allowing people to vote, drive cars and enroll into the military while NOT allowing them to drink alcohol is a good idea, you don't have to wonder if you have an "underage" drinking problem. In the rest of the world, it's usually 16 for low-alcoholic beverages, and 18 for spirits.
If running roughshod over millions of US citizens by unconstitutionally spying on them, justifying it by secret court orders from secret courts, and constantly lying to the public about it is not enough, I wouldn't know what more a government would need to do to justify impeachment.
Probably getting a blowjob by an intern would do it.
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Re: The Patent System
That is the theory. But you are unable to back this up. Nobody ever could, yet. Because the only studies that exist could not demonstrate this with any statistical significance. Neither your next sentence:
The patent system is in place in every modern economy for a reason - we would not be anywhere near where we are technologically without it.
Actually, we probably would be much further.
I've been researching the history of the patent system somewhat, it starts out with delaying the advent of the steam machine by 20 years and gets worse from there.
Please go read http://mises.org/document/3582/Against-Intellectual-Property first to have all your claims about the utility of patents refuted one by one.
In the meantime, I'll give the word to someone else:
"the impediments thrown in the way of improvements by the existence of patents will hardly be credited by those who are not familiar with the operation of them. In the present state of things they create such barriers that it is almost wonderful that any improvements can be effected." -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1870
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Insure you can blame someone from the other party
Compared to the other "modern" we have in a lot of European countries, I'm not quite sure why your system is called "health insurance" in the first place. Seems rather like a scheme to funnel funds from the population to somewhere else. And the real fun is that half your population seems intent to sabotage any effort of fixing it.
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Notifying customers...
Somebody claims some customer violated somebodies copyright? Forward it to the customer in question.
If the customer really did, he'll probably take the infringing content down, or stop filesharing, if he didn't he can contact the accuser himself he tell him what he thinks.
Usually, there is absolutely no need to get law enforcement involved, unless one party insists stubbornly on something it should not.
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Pacman
Sounds like a techno-party. And only Pacman is to blame!
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Dead people don't need sustainment
Especially this "copyright last over duration of life" we've been warned about in 1841:
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
There is no "punishment" in civil law, there is only redress.
Unless your mercantilists changed it, and you now can be hanged for importing finished goods from the colonies. Or somesuch.
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The NSA is my enemy
It used to be different in the late 90ies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
But then, the NSA was about "making the USA more secure by making everyone more secure". Now it's the opposite ;).
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Re: Re: Re: Gotta watch out for those stawmen, they're crazy flammable
As predicted in 1841:
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html
"A nd you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
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Re: Protection
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Illegal marketplaces start with idiots outlawing drugs et.al.
But no, somebody always has to ruin it.
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Re:
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Ah, yes, the book-burning movement in full swing
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because the government neither wrote nor distributes openssl
I (and most security researchers) don't see the need to inform the government specifically, unless you expect for instance a CERT to be able to help you.
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Re: Decent concern, wrong target
The problem was already pointed out in 1841, when the British introduced it:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_%28Macaulay%29
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Re:
But they're only traitors against the US citizens, so it's your job to impeach them for their crimes.
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Re: Re: USTR
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Re: Huh?
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Underage Drinking
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Re:
And since the NSA does not publish, it can't violate copyright.
It might violate the DMCA, though, by trying to break encryption that "protects copyrighted content" ;)
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Re: Re: Probably Dumb Questions
If running roughshod over millions of US citizens by unconstitutionally spying on them, justifying it by secret court orders from secret courts, and constantly lying to the public about it is not enough, I wouldn't know what more a government would need to do to justify impeachment.
Probably getting a blowjob by an intern would do it.
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