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tenuousemphasistoday at 3:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is going to blow your mind, but people created music, literature, art long before intellectual property laws existed. IP laws are nothing but rent seeking.


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intendedtoday at 4:06 PM

Yes, and we lived in a world of guilds, Orders and secrets which kept their knowledge tightly within themselves.

Music and art was created by patronage. Entire periods o where the art that mattered was made by the powers that moved the world.

For my whole life the goal was to move away from that era, not to see it recreated.

Also, this is a debate that English speakers can enjoy on a website for an US based accelerator. Most of humanity doesn’t even have the standing to be heard in this conversation.

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palmoteatoday at 3:18 PM

> This is going to blow your mind

No. it won't blow anyone's mind. Not a single person.

> but people created music, literature, art long before intellectual property laws existed.

^^^ cherry-picked, incomplete reading of history.