On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:27 +0900, Patrick Aljord wrote:

Ok so because leaders are incompetent I should just wait for democracy to come one day and stay ignorant in the meantime? That's weird.

You are dealing with people, Patrick, who build up a huge head of righteous indignation while forgetting that the USA, at the turn of the 20th century, didn't respect foreign copyright.  "Intellectual property protection" only started becoming an issue in the USA when they had some worth protecting.  Now they don't want any other countries to use the same techniques they did to bootstrap.

But really, copyright is off-topic I would suspect.  We should probably continue this discussion off-list.

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