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by Anonymous User on Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 02:27:15 PM PDT

Artificial scarcity does nobody any good.

See also:

http://www.againstmonopoly.org/
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=801

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window which seems to apply to a lot of the "economic activity" generated solely by IP laws, from IP lawyers and litigation to IP legislation, IP lobbying, MediaDefender type dirty-tricks companies, DRM providers, "license server" type systems with corporate volume-licensed software, and other such nonsense. Not to mention inefficient distribution channels, such as selling plastic discs to people with broadband.


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