Quote from: bitcoin2cash on August 29, 2011, 10:08:42 PM

Quote from: Hawker on August 29, 2011, 09:54:19 PM

It is raw aggression on the part of someone who dislikes intellectual property to say they will deprive the rest of society of its freedom to have innovative research.

If i'm not using violence to prevent you from doing anything but you are using violence to prevent me from doing something, I find it odd to accuse me of aggression.

I am not preventing you so I use no violence - the society you are a part of is preventing you from stealing intellectual property. If you persist to the point that you get arrested, thats due to your taking something that was not yours and trying to profit from it. Thats aggression.

Research is a good thing; I can't think of any reason why you feel that rewarding people who invest large sums of money to invent useful things like computer chips or medicines is in some way a restriction of your freedom. A simple example; IBM invested $5 billion if 1950s dollars in the original System 360 architecture. It was the basis of all computing since then. If IBM had not the exclusive right to resell that technology since the 1960s, there never would have been a computer revolution.

Frederic - your reply was very long. Are you saying now that you have the right to copy someone else's research and sell it a profit? Or have you conceded that point?

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Doesn't aggression imply some sort of force, and isn't force measured in Newtons, or more specifically kg*m/s^2.

ag·gres·sionNoun/əˈgreSHən/
1. Hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.

No. Taking someone property without permission is aggressive.