Quote from: bitcoin2cash on September 04, 2011, 08:15:20 PM

Quote from: Hawker on September 04, 2011, 07:59:10 PM

So if you have your way, there won't be global brands and won't be big budget movies and computer games. You feel the same way about branded goods. And that's fine. The important thing is that you acknowledge the consequence of your belief. Provided you are not proposing to remove these things from other people, we can all admire your ascetic outlook.

I'm proposing we do away with intellectual property laws, consequences be damned. I've already explained how we can have brand names. Consumers will be able to sue business for fraud if they are misled into thinking that this "Burger King" is the same as that other "Burger King". It has to be made clear that they aren't the same. Just as if my name was Bill Gates and I sold you some software, I couldn't lead you to believe you were buying software from that other Bill Gates. A name is a name and nobody should have exclusive rights to them. I've also explained how commercially viable music, movies and games will still be possible. Perhaps the budgets will have to be scaled back if people refuse to pay money for them but that's just too bad. They clearly weren't worth their price to enough people. I'm not removing anything from you in the sense that I'm not preventing you from doing these things. I'm simply reclaiming my legal right to share information freely. If your business model can't survive, again, that's just too bad.

If you read up on your American civil war, the South said it was fighting for "liberty" yet they were denying blacks freedom. Your rhetoric is similar. You keep going on about your rights but what you want is to take away everyone else's freedom to have decent big budget movies, games and consumer goods. Its not nice.