I don't think patents OR copyrights are moral. You shouldn't have the ability to stop people from using ideas in their mind (which belongs to them) even if you were the one who came up with the idea originally and put it into their mind. Other people's brains don't belong to you, neither does their equipment for making books, games, movies, music, medicine or anything else. If they can make it, why the hell should you be able to stop them from using their hands and their property to turn out exact duplicates of your own creations?
By the way Notch, I disagree with you on the government research thing. Government is terrible at just about everything. Instead, vital research should be done by the free market, but without the protection of patents or copyrights, as anyone who owns either is automatically a troll.
In a decade or three we'll be able to ask a computer to invent medicines and technology on the spot, so why should we let one person dominate something that is going to be so easy to discover and produce in such a short amount of time?
By the way Notch, I disagree with you on the government research thing. Government is terrible at just about everything. Instead, vital research should be done by the free market, but without the protection of patents or copyrights, as anyone who owns either is automatically a troll.
In a decade or three we'll be able to ask a computer to invent medicines and technology on the spot, so why should we let one person dominate something that is going to be so easy to discover and produce in such a short amount of time?