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by Anonymous User on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 09:42:39 PM PDT

The history of congressional action on Intellectual property rights has been abysmal. The current mess is more the result of exploiting legislation than a failure of the marketplace. In fact there are numerous signs that the existing system is failing and the marketplace is looking for a fix. The existance and success of Free and Open Source software is a reaction to the failure of the existing system. IBM and Microsoft are arguing for substantial patent reform. P2P is one giant self serving act of civil disobediance rejecting copyrights. Regardless of what the EU eventually does, there is a serious fight over IPR. And the developing world to a significant extent seems to have come to the realization that buying western IP permanently guarantees them a second or third tier status. I do not trust congress to do anything but make things worse. But then even that just speeds up the collapse of the existing system.

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