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by Anonymous User on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 10:03:05 PM PDT

That is the most fundimental question all this leaves unanswered. Criticising the existing system is incredibly easy - I know it is my criticism. But unless you beleive in the elimination of Intellectual Property rights - a return to the system that worked for almost 6000 years of human existance - albeit without instantaneous zero cost copying. Then there needs to be some consideration of where we should go. There I have to appologize. I do not have the answers - except that what we have does not work, and it only gets worse with every new act of congress. I would like to advocate that bright line purist patents and copyrights have failed lets do without them. I like bright lines. I beleive that without copyrights and patents, songs will be sung, books will be written, programs coded, and machines invented. But like the US founding fathers, I beleive that some weak protections will benefit us all. I am not going to create the IP policy for the 21st century, but I expect to get to watch is that of the latter half of the 20th century slowly collapses.

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