The free market where every innovation is locked up for 20 years behind patent walls? That free market?
I guess you could say he was free to do what he wanted, he fucked around and found out. Had it been “unfree” he would have been backstopped a while ago.
I agree that the “invisible hand of capitalism” is ironic, but the free market is circular in and of itself creating an unfree market.
The free market that chose of it's own volition to allow participants to either optionally utilize copyright or not?
People forget just how unfree free markets are.
Of course, free markets tend to become unfree without regulation they are a bit of a unicorn.